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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 THULQADA 18, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Amir’s US visit Nearly 60,000 73% of Kuwait’s Syrian new strategic evacuated population has Ghazal leaps cooperation after China bank accounts: over admin chapter:2 Envoy quake kills9 19 CBK17 governor barriers14 Qatar announces visa-free Min 35º Max 49º entry to 80 nationalities High Tide 01:59 & 12:59 Low Tide Gulf diplomatic crisis splits families, dashes dreams 07:27 & 20:14 32 PAGES NO: 17302 150 FILS DOHA: Qatar, isolated by its neighbors in a diplomatic Amiri envoy hands letter to Qatar Emir crisis, yesterday introduced a visa-free entry programme Saudi forces for 80 nationalities to stimulate air transport and tourism. “The visa exemption scheme will make Qatar raze Awamiya the most open country in the region,” tourism depart- ment official Hassan Al-Ibrahim told a news conference in Doha. Interior ministry official Mohamed Rashed Al- old quarter Mazrouei said that nationals of 80 countries would only need to present a valid passport for entry to the energy- AWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia: A security campaign rich Gulf state which is to host football’s 2022 World Cup. against gunmen in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia The waiver program, which came into immediate has reduced dozens of buildings in the town of effect, benefits countries of the European Union’s Awamiya to husks and seen thousands of residents Schengen zone, other Western states, Latin American flee. Security forces have been trying for three and Asian nations, including India. Lebanon is the only months to flush out gunmen behind years of attacks Arab country in the list published at the end of the on police in the small town of around 30,000 that has news conference, although the six-nation Gulf been the center of protests. Cooperation Council of which Qatar is a member Journalists on a government tour of the town yes- already allows freedom of movement by its nationals. terday were the first outside witnesses of the damage Nationals of 33 countries will now be authorized to wrought by the rare battle in the tightly controlled reside in Qatar for 180 days and the other 47 states list- kingdom, a key Western ally and the world’s top oil ed for up to 30 days, periods which are renewable a sin- exporter. Reporters escorted by special forces in gle time. Mazrouei said the countries were selected on armored vehicles saw streets in Awamiya’s old quarter the basis of security and economic considerations, or transformed into a war zone a world away from the for the buying power of their nationals. sparkling cityscapes elsewhere in the energy-rich Gulf. Qatar Airways chief Akbar Al-Baker said his carrier, There was no fighting during the tour. Rusted-out cars which this year plans to extend its network to 62 new lay half-flattened next to eviscerated homes pocked destinations, would be a primary beneficiary. “This his- with hundreds of bullet holes. Graffiti blared along one toric announcement comes at time of historic signifi- rubble-strewn street. cance while some countries in the region have decided Fighting picked up this month when elite forces DOHA: Envoy of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, First Deputy Prime to close their skies and their borders, Qatar has instead joined an operation that authorities began in May to Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, delivers a written letter to opened its borders,” he said. On Aug 3, Qatar created a tear down the old quarter, known as Al-Musawara, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani yesterday. The letter has bearing on the latest regional new permanent residents status for certain groups of Continued on Page 11 and international developments and several issues of mutual interest. — KUNA foreigners, including those who have worked for the Continued on Page 11 LOCAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Al-Sabah meets with Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Ali meets with His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- meets with First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Al-Ghanem. —KUNA Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Amir receives top state officials

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Bayan Palace yesterday Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem. His Highness the Amir also received His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah as well as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. — KUNA

NEW YORK: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah waves goodbye as he prepares to leave VIENNA: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber New York yesterday. — KUNA Al-Sabah is welcomed upon his arrival to the Austrian capital Vienna. Crown Prince arrives in Vienna

KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arrived yesterday in the His Highness the Crown Prince flew to Vienna from New York where he underwent regular medical Austrian capital Vienna on a private visit. He was received at the airport by Deputy Chief of the Kuwait checkups. His Highness Sheikh Nawaf was seen off by Kuwait’s Ambassador to Washington Sheikh Salem National Guard Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Ambassador to Austria Sadeq Marafie, Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Permanent Delegate to the United Nations headquarters in New York and other Kuwaiti diplomats. Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi, and other diplomats. — KUNA Amir’s US visit new strategic cooperation chapter: US Envoy

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah ty, which is continued. But also security when it Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s upcoming US visit comes to our joint; and separate, efforts, to fight will open a new chapter of multi-faceted strate- terrorism and terrorism financing.” gic ties and cooperation, while Washington was Furthermore, Silverman said “we are also throwing its weight behind Kuwait’s mediation making progress in issues related to trade and in ‘intra-GCC’ political dispute, a US diplomat investment, in both directions, in addition to said. His Highness the Amir’s next month visit to education; a fundamental part of our relation- Washington DC, the fourth since his assumed ship, with five generation of Kuwaitis who have office in 2006, will take place as Kuwait’s head of studied in American universities and colleges. “It state continues his mediation efforts to solve the is really one of the foundation blocks of our rela- Gulf dispute. tion, as part of the dialogue would be discussing His Highness the Amir’s mediation in the possibilities in even furthering this cooperation. ‘intra-GCC’ political dispute is highly praised and So, it is the whole gambit of relations.” supported, US Ambassador to the State of KUWAIT: Kuwait Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Mohammad Al-Khedhr Kuwait Lawrence Silverman said. He made the Strategic dialogue meets with head of International Policy and Planning for the United Kingdom’s remarks during an exclusive interview on the On the strategic dialogue, Silverman said it is Ministry of Defense David Hogan Hern. — KUNA heels of retired US Marine Corps general and ex- basically a ‘government-to-government’ cooper- CENTCOM Commander-in-Chief Anthony Zinni’s ation. “The Dialogue would also have an impact recent visit to Kuwait to reiterate support and on the business and private sectors, in a bid to discuss Kuwait’s efforts in resolving the ongoing enhance trade and investment in both direc- feud between Qatar and another four Arab tions. “In this vein, we have about $3 billion in countries. This is Zinni’s first leg of a tour that trade in each direction. I know that Kuwait will also take him to Jeddah, Manama, the UAE wants more foreign investments here, including and Cairo in addition to Doha. KUWAIT: US Ambassador to the State of American investments, through their attempt to The US Administration had expressed sup- Kuwait Lawrence Silverman speaks dur- address various issues to streamline business- port and appreciation of Kuwait’s mediation making in Kuwait. “because we want to see an end to this dispute ing an exclusive interview. — KUNA “Whether it is cutting through the red tape as quickly as possible,” for the sake of the region, (bureaucracy), or having even more transparen- Silverman noted. Since early summer, Kuwait, Strategic partnership cy in the process of tendering for government supported by regional and international parties, His Highness the Amir paid official visits to contracts,” among other related issues. Another have been mediating to solve the rift between Washington DC in 2006, 2009 and 2013. He also very important aspect of the trade discussion is Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and participated in a GCC-US summit in Camp David the protection of intellectual property rights, he Egypt on one side and Qatar on the other. in May 2015. “We are extremely pleased that His noted. “It is not only about American, but also Highness is honoring us with the visit,” noted Kuwaiti intellectual property rights, as Kuwaitis Global leader Silverman regarding His Highness the Amir’s are impacted by this as well, where a Kuwaiti However, Silverman carried on saying, that September 7 scheduled visit to Washington DC, filmmaker, musician or poet, in addition to local this was not the only area that Kuwait has been pointing out that this visit was planned before software developers, need to know that they active in. “Kuwait is truly a global humanitarian the Gulf crisis. “The visit reflects the very strong, have the ability to sell their protected product, Kuwait Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Mohammad Al-Khedhr meets with leader. What Kuwait is doing is not about charity close and strategic partnership between the which would allow and encourage them to be the Bangladesh Military Command (BMC) Commander Brigadier General SM only, but it is also investing in the stability of its United States and Kuwait, which is longstand- more creative and productive.” Shamim. neighbors, as well as preserving such stability. ing, but also we are in the process of enhancing The strategic dialogue, first held last October This is extremely important and very apprecia- that relationship; making it even closer,” he in Washington DC, translates the vision of His Army Chief of Staff tive by those neighbors. It is a great vision on underlined. His Highness the Amir’s visit is a Highness the Amir and the US Administration of the part of His Highness the Amir and the result of discussions that His Highness had with strengthening bilateral relations and drawing a Kuwaiti Government.” President (Donald) Trump earlier this year, in road map for such relations for the next 25 years. meets British General Furthermore, it is highly praiseworthy that February, and during the Riyadh Summits in During its meeting two days ago, the Kuwaiti Kuwait have announced hosting a donor confer- May, Silverman said. Cabinet was notified of the delegation that will KUWAIT: Kuwait Army Chief of Staff On Tuesday, the visiting British official ence to the reconstruction of Iraq within the first “That was the genesis of the idea of having accompany His Highness the Amir in the official Lieutenant General Mohammad Al-Khedhr met with Kuwait Land Force Commander quarter of 2018, he stressed. The conference, His Highness visit Washington and focus on the visit to Washington. met yesterday with the visiting head of Major General Khaled Al-Saleh Al-Sabah. called by His Highness the Amir, aims to pool bilateral relationship, but of course also on The delegation includes Deputy Chief of the International Policy and Planning for the During the meeting, both generals dis- financial resources from international donors to regional issues that concern both of us,” he indi- Kuwait National Guard Sheikh Mishaal Al- United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense David cussed means of enhancing military help the Iraqi government rehabilitate areas cated. “This is also an opportunity for both dele- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, First Deputy Prime Hogan Hern. The two sides discussed mat- cooperation between the two countries, recently liberated from terrorist groups. gations to have the second session of the Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh ters of mutual interest and ways of boosting said Directorate of Moral Guidance and “Kuwait, alone, hosted the first three Syria Strategic Dialogue. Secretary of State (Rex) Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime military cooperation between Kuwait and Public Relations at the Ministry of donor conferences, which were not only desig- Tillerson very much looks forward to welcoming Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Khaled the UK. Also yesterday, Lieutenant General Defense in a press release. Chief of Land nated for helping refugees, but also supporting First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, and Deputy Prime Minister Khedhr met with the Bangladesh Military Force’s Operations Brigadier General countries hosting them, in Jordan, Lebanon, Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to and Minister of Finance Anas Al-Saleh, in addi- Command (BMC) Commander Brigadier Abdullah Al-Juba’a and Military Attache Turkey and Iraq,” the ambassador pointed out. Washington to continue the work that we’re tion to senior officials of the Amiri Diwan, and General SM Shamim, who was accompanied of the British Embassy to Kuwait Colonel Silverman said the US was honored with His doing, including issues on defense; in conjunc- other relevant bodies. Security and a media by the new BMC Commander Brigadier Pilot Fenley Mackin were present at the Highness the Amir’s forthcoming visit. tion with the US commitment to Kuwait’s securi- teams are also included. —KUNA General Abul Mansoor. meeting. — KUNA LOCAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 Fires in buildings under construction most difficult to tackle: KFSD Chief 90 percent of recent fires caused by welding

By Nawara Fattahova Deputy General Manager for the Prevention Sector Brig Khaled Fahad stressed KUWAIT: Director General of the Kuwait Fire that prevention is better than firefighting as Service Directorate (KFSD) Lieutenant the expenses of applying safety measures is General Khalid Al-Mikrad yesterday said the much lower than the cost of the losses due most difficult blazes firefighters deal with are to accidents. “The losses from fires are great, in buildings under construction, as they can- especially if workers die or are injured. It not determine the cause of the fire. “These takes a long time to replace the injured fires are also very dangerous as firefighters workers and train new ones, which will delay have to go inside the building if the blaze is the project. In addition, investigations at the hard to reach, especially if the project is a police, fire department and insurance com- huge one, as fire spreads quickly,” he said panies take time. Also, damage to the build- during a symposium by KFSD titled ‘Safety in ing and tools all lead to distrust in the con- Buildings Under Construction’ yesterday. tractors,” he said. KFSD aimed to increase prevention of fires at buildings under construction though Ensuring safety this symposium. “We aim to have a unified Naser Khreibit, Deputy Director General vision which will protect lives and properties. of the Public Authority for Housing Welfare Public institutions should cooperate with us for Planning and Designing Affairs, said the to exploit previous experiences to protect all planning and designing phase of the project private and public projects,” Mikrad said. He should adopt measures that ensure safety. explained that if the fire is large, it will pose a “The instructions of the engineering office danger to the surrounding area and may should be followed, starting from preparing spread to other buildings. “The Sharq fire the documents of the project, which obliges caused more fires, which confused firefight- the contractor to use the latest safety and ers who were dealing with six fires in one security tools,” he noted. place. Also, if the wind is strong, the blaze Khreibit gave an example of the South might get out of their control,” he noted. Mutlaa City housing project under construc- tion now. “This project will house around Human errors 30,000 families and is in the execution phase. According to him, the main reasons KD 4.5 million is being paid in housing behind the fires are human errors and allowances monthly. If a fire occurs in this proj- neglecting safety and security measures. ect, the losses will be very high, especially with “Ninety percent of the fires that took place the delay. So safety criteria should be very recently were caused by cutting metal and strict, and this includes fire detectors,” he high- welding inside the project area. Our reports lighted. Futuh Al-Asfour, Secretary General of KUWAIT: Ahmad Al-Manfouhi, Director General of the Municipality (center left) speaks during a symposium that also hosted are purely technical that are issued based on the Federation of Kuwaiti Engineering Offices Director General of the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate Lieutenant General Khalid Al-Mikrad (center right) and other officials. evidence. If the fire is deliberate, then we and Consultant Houses, noted that engineer- will announce it, but the recent fires hap- ing offices play a great role that is neglected —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat pened due to cutting and welding, due to by many institutions that are responsible for which hot sparks fell on inflammable materi- the safety and security of buildings under con- als, according to surveillance cameras,” he struction. “I suggest forming a committee that Borrowing law crucial for strategic concluded. will force the engineering offices to set criteria There are various reasons behind fires, so for executing companies, and find qualified there should be strict laws to protect lives offices to supervise safety and security meas- planning, deficit financing: Official and properties under construction. “These ures,” she explained. laws should be strictly applied against viola- “Cutting and welding should take place KUWAIT: A borrowing law with an ade- on borrowing is part of a series of legisla- domestic borrowing, and withdrawing from tors and to avoid committing the same mis- outside the working area. Also, bank deposits quate ceiling in terms of amount and time tions issued in 1987 allowing the govern- reserves, Mulla noted. He pointed out that take again. Also, I suggest having safety and are not enough to cover losses caused by limit is essential for strategic planning and ment to borrow for financing the deficit in each choice has its own criteria, and regula- security departments in all ministries and fires, especially if there are fatalities, so this financing the deficit in the state budget, a the budget. tions, for preserving the a state’s financial state institutions according to the municipal- should be reviewed. Furthermore, consultants senior Finance Ministry official has said. The bill has been recently approved by reputation and credit rating. The draft bill ity law to ensure the implementation of safe- should have the right to report mistakes or Abdulazi Al-Mulla, chief of the ministry’s the cabinet, to be later referred to the sets a ceiling of the amounts of money the ty and security measures,” pointed out shortages in the constructor’s work regarding Public Debt Management Office, added in a National Assembly. It combines a host of government could borrow over a certain Ahmad Al-Manfouhi, Director General of the safety and security to the municipality,” Asfour press release yesterday that the draft bill choices to handle the situation, external and period of time. —KUNA Municipality. stressed.

KUWAIT: Ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to Kuwait So Chang Sik visited Kuwait Times yesterday and met with Editor- in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Automatic cut of telephone service if Aug bills not paid

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Communications will include a phone line in the ‘severance yesterday urged subscribers to pay finan- list’ is KD 50 (about $165) for home lines cial dues, warning that it will enforce a and KD 100 (about $330) for commercial programmed automatic severance of tele- ones, the ministry noted. phone land lines service for August in line Telephone lines whose bills are being with the procedure in force. paid in installments will be automatically Subscribers will receive a general comprised on the list once a subscriber warning message on August 13, then a welshes on payment. Subscribes can pay second will follow to the concerned ones bills via the ministry’s website or the offi- a week later, the ministry said in a state- cial one of the State of Kuwait ment. Service will be cut as of August 27 Government, the Kuwait Government on if bills are not paid, it added. The financial Line.” They can also phone 123 to ask ceiling according to which the computer about their bills. —KUNA

KUWAIT: Director General of Kuwait Environment Public Authority (EPA) Sheikh Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Homoud Al-Sabah speaks with volunteers during the event. —KUNA Waste dumps center is base of recycling: Sheikh Abdullah

KUWAIT: Environment Public Authority Sheikh Abdullah said EPA was keen to (EPA) opened yesterday the first waste find a 2-sq-km plot of land in Al-Salmi to dumps center in Al-Salmi, north of Kuwait, build recycling factories in coordination in an area of two square kilometers. “Waste with the Public Authority for Industry (PAI), dumps assembly center is the base for recy- noting that Kuwait will have more than 15 cling projects in the country and will be fol- percent of alternative and renewable ener- lowed with many other ventures,” said gy sources by the end of 2035. Director General of Kuwait Environment Meanwhile, President of Union of Public Authority (EPA) Sheikh Abdullah Al- Cooperative Societies Ali Al-Kandari said Ahmad Al-Homoud Al-Sabah. EPA is work- this project is the first of its kind and can be ing to increase number of waste recycling of a great use to both society and con- factories in Kuwait and reducing waste sumers. Regarding the (OMNIYA) project, landfills, Sheikh Abdullah said in a speech, “it was just a small idea to create environ- delivered after opening ceremony of the ment friendly awareness concept in paper waste recycling center. Kuwait,” said Sanna Al-Qamlas, one of the The center is established in coordination team members, adding they were able to with Kefan Co-Op Society, Kuwait Union Of expand rapidly during their first year. Consumer Co-Operative Societies (KUCCS), (OMNIYA) signed a contract with (SME) to with support by National Fund for Small build the first recycling center for (Pt) sub- and Medium Enterprise (SME) and plastic stance in the Gulf region, not only in recycling project ‘OMNIYA’. Kuwait. —KUNA LOCAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

In Brief Ban on publishing Kuwaitis in Brussels Mobile clinics sent to Syria state security cases urged to be cautious ANKARA: Al-Rahma International Charity, under the KUWAIT: A publication ban has been placed on all cas- BRUSSELS: The Kuwaiti embassy in Brussels is urg- Social Reform Society, has sent yesterday two mobile es that deal with state security, particularly, outlawed ing Kuwaiti citizens visiting the Belgian capital to clinics from the Turkish city of Hatay to Idlib in Syria. groups’ recruitment of new members and efforts to help be cautious following the shooting incident earlier The project aims to ease the suffering of displaced convicts evade justice in Criminal Case 51/2015, in the Molenbeek district. The embassy urged Syrians who pay a high cost to reach clinics near the Kuwait’s General Prosecutor said on Tuesday. Authorities Kuwaitis to call their emergency number: borders, head of Syria office at the organization are continuing to investigate these issues, read a state- 0032477775801, in case of any difficulties. Police in Waleed Al-Suwailem said. He added that Al-Rahma ment provided by General Prosecutor Dharar Al-Asousi’s the Molenbeek district of Brussels, in the after- International had provided over $75 million worth of office. The statement noted that the publication ban noon, fired at a car, whose driver claimed to have aid and development projects since the breakout of applies to all social media outlets. —KUNA been carrying explosives. — KUNA the Syrian crisis in 2011.— KUNA Photo of the day

KUWAIT: The white-eared bulbul or white-cheeked bulbul. It is a member of the bulbul family that is found in southwestern Asia from India to the Arabian Peninsula. — KUNA photo Ooredoo awards winner with Ford Mustang

KUWAIT: Ooredoo, Kuwait’s fastest net- work, announced the name of the winner of its Ooredoo Surprises campaign which was launched on its digital channels. The winner of the car, Mohammed Hassan Mohammed, received his 2017 Ford Mustang from the Ooredoo Kuwait head office in a ceremony attended by repre- sentatives of Ooredoo’s Marketing and Corporate Communications departments. This campaign comes to reiterate Ooredoo Kuwait’s commitment to enrich the experience of its customers from all segments and throughout the year, stem- ming from its core values of caring, con- necting and challenging. Ooredoo has recently launched a number of cam- paigns on its digital channels to ensure better outreach and communication with all its customers. KUWAIT: Mohammed Hassan Mohammed receives the 2017 Ford Mustang from Ooredoo officials. Ooredoo’s head office building. KRCS’ juvenile volunteer club instills benevolence in kids

KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent and development are often co-related prove just how eager the country’s Society’s (KRCS) special child volun- and that the initiative has “left a new leaders are in promoting such moral teer club has been assembled to pro- mark” on the venerable Kuwaiti chari- excellence. Tariq Al-Kandari, a dentist mote such virtues as altruism and ty’s long odyssey. and KRCS volunteer, said that he goodwill, the charity’s deputy presi- Meanwhile, Dr Hawazen Al- shared some of his medical knowl- dent said yesterday. Speaking at a cer- Zahrani, project consultant at the edge with the kids, particularly, the emony to cap off a month’s worth of Arab Red Crescent and Red Cross importance of dental health. events put together by the club, Organization, hailed Kuwait as a bas- Similarly, Issa Al-Kandari and Fatma Anwar Al-Hasawi pointed out that tion of philanthropy, saying Kuwaitis’ Al-Sharah, two child volunteers, said some 140 children joined the festivi- penchant for volunteerism was that they both cherish the experience ties this year, all of whom were taken admirable. of working with KRCS, one that has under the wings of highly qualified She noted that Kuwait’s humanitar- given them valuable skills that would Anwar Al-Hasawi trainers. He added that volunteerism ian endeavors are well-chronicled and serve them well in their lives. —KUNA

KUWAIT: Ali Bin Shaibah from ABK receives the recognition award from MGRP officials. ABK efforts in local youth development recognized

KUWAIT: In light of its on-going support to global level. ABK has been collaborating the development of Kuwait’s youth, Al-Ahli with MGRP to conduct its annual summer Bank of Kuwait (ABK) was recently honored internship program since 2014, which tar- by the Manpower and Government gets young Kuwaiti university and college Restructuring Program (MGRP) for the vital students, through the ‘ABK Academy’. The role it plays in developing the skills of program combines lectures, on-site assign- Kuwait’s youth population. The ceremony ments and team projects, which offer stu- was held on August 2, 2017 at the MGRP dents the opportunity to enrich their knowl- premises. edge of the banking sector and gain first- The award was received by representa- hand experience in the work field, while tives of the Learning and Development team emphasizing the importance of teamwork. at ABK who conveyed gratitude to MGRP ABK is an avid supporter of education and and reiterated the importance of working has successfully built strong partnerships closely to help fulfill the common goal of with many of Kuwait’s educational institu- supporting the youth of Kuwait and prepar- tions to offer participating students a ing tomorrow’s leaders to take the nation rewarding experience at a crucial point in KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society’s Special Child Volunteer Club members participate in a medical exercise.— KUNA forward on a local, regional and ultimately, their educational journey. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 LOCAL

Iraqi PM: Ongoing negotiations to finalize Kuwait compensations issue

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar delegation (which has been formed) to Al-Abadi said Tuesday that negotiations discuss the same issue,” he added. The are ongoing to finalize compensations Iraqi premier said he hoped the matter to Kuwait, which remain an issue for the would be completely resolved. He, how- lifting of UN Chapter 7 sanctions off ever, did not disclose the details of the Baghdad. In a press conference, Abadi ongoing negotiations nor their results, said Iraq has already finalized the issue neither did he reveal any information of oil-for-food with the United Nations, regarding the delegations. Chapter 7, but that compensations owed to the which demanded that Iraq’s global assets State of Kuwait remain the key issue for be used to compensate victims of the the lifting of Chapter 7. “We are currently Iraqi 1990 invasion of Kuwait, was negotiating with Kuwait about this, and imposed on Iraq by the UN Security the issue was discussed during my last Council after Kuwait’s liberation. Over the visit to Kuwait,” he said. past few days, Iraq ended the issue of oil- “A Kuwaiti delegation has visited Iraq for-food with the UN, paving the way for for this purpose and there is now an Iraqi the payment of dues to Kuwait. — KUNA MPs voice rejection to govt VAT approval

By A Saleh Abdelkareem Al-Kandari demanded KUWAIT: A file photo showing passengers at Kuwait International Airport. — KUNA improvement in services before thinking KUWAIT: A number of MPs rejected the about imposing VAT, adding “we will vote government’s decision to impose value against the proposal”. Municipal Council member proposes added tax (VAT), and said they will not vote for it in the National Assembly, because VAT Network arrested will increase prices for both citizens and A Moroccan newspaper said members renaming airport after Amir expats. MP Riyadh Al-Adasani said he is of a prostitution network that was busted against taxes including VAT. He said this includes Kuwaiti businessmen and lawyers. proposal was included in the government’s Al-Masaa newspaper said the arrestees Over a million passengers in July work program and the prime minister was include a 36-year-old judicial official and a grilled over several policies including the lawyer who is divorced with two children, By Hanan Al-Saadoun and Meshaal Al-Enezi Jaber Al-Sabah in recognition of his contribu- department said the number of visas issued was issue of high prices. in addition to a businessman in the field of tions in the diplomatic and humanitarian fields. 15,884. Eleven passengers were arrested for for- MP Jamaan Al-Harbash said it is not pos- well-digging. The four Kuwaitis confessed KUWAIT: Chairman of the Legal and Financial In other news, statistics of airport passports gery of travel documents, while 118 wanted pas- sible to accept VAT due to inflation and the to arriving at Al-Manarah airport from Committee at the Municipal Council Ali Al- department show that the total number of pas- sengers were arrested. Separately, Airport traffic government’s inability to control prices. He Barcelona. The network of 13 persons was Mousa presented an official proposal yesterday sengers recorded at Kuwait International Airport organization department carried out 2,244 secu- said the Cabinet’s approval of the GCC VAT arrested after vice police raided a villa, but to rename Kuwait International Airport into in July was 1,185,623. Arrivals totaled 533,270 rity missions during July 2017. It said 20 vehicles treaty does not mean it will be effective the public prosecution decided to free the ‘Sheikh Sabah International Airport,’ after His including 201,726 Kuwaitis, 31,882 Gulf nation- were impounded, while 2,223 traffic citations without parliament ratification. MP Gulf suspects. Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- als and 299,662 from other nationalities. The were issued. Crime Report Two dead by drowning

KUWAIT: A two-year-old Kuwaiti child drowned while he was with his family in a chalet south of Kuwait. The child was taken to a polyclinic, then medevacked to Adan Hospital, but died on arrival. Meanwhile, a Gulf youth drowned and died near a Salmiya beach. The body was recovered by the coroner. In a separate case, medics failed to revive an Egyptian man who was taken to Adan Hospital by ambulance. The coroner recovered the body and police are waiting for the report.

Deliveryman beaten An Egyptian deliveryman accused a citizen of beating him in Nugra because his order was late. The citizen reportedly got angry when he was called back and told that his order would be delayed. Ten minutes later, he called the Egyptian and insulted him. When the order was delivered, the citizen got out of the car and punched the Egyptian in the face, then left without paying. The Egyptian lodged a complaint and police are investigating.

Drug abuse Ahmadi police arrested two citizens in an abnormal condi- tion and found drugs and Lyrica tablets with them. The arrest was made when a traffic violation was committed and the driver refused to stop.

Absconders caught Farwaniya police arrested eight absconding women from three nationalities. They are all in violation of the labor law and do not have IDs. They are being ques- tioned and will be deported.

Domestic violence A woman, 27, accused her brother of beating her. She sub- mitted a medical report at Adan police station stating she sustained minor bruises.

Fight A fight broke out between several adolescents in Sabah Al-Salem, injuring one of them in the process. A 16-year-old boy told police he was beaten by three unidentified persons. He said he was talking to anoth- er man when the three men got out of a nearby car and beat him.

Prison search Central prison authorities searched several cells and found 15 mobile phones inside bathrooms. Other inmates are being questioned.

Smuggling foiled Kuwait International Airport officers foiled yet another attempt to smuggle 7,500 Tramadol tablets, which an Arab man had hidden in a vest. He was sent to con- cerned authorities.

Theft A citizen told Sabahiya police that a laptop and a licensed shotgun were stolen from his car while it was parked in front of the house.

Swindling A female citizen told South Surra police she was conned by a Kuwaiti man when he made her believe he can make her four times the amount of money she pays him. She said that she gave him KD 1,000 on a trial basis and expected to get KD 3,000-KD 4,000 back, but the man disappeared and did not answer her calls. Separately, a Syrian jeweler told Adan police that he met a citizen and an Egyptian who told him about a project, so he gave them KD 59,000, then dis- covered that he was swindled. — Translated from the Arabic press THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

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PYONGYANG: In this April 15, 2017, file photo, a missile that analysts believe could be the North Korean Hwasong-12 is paraded across Kim Il Sung Square. — AP Trump warns N Korea of ‘fire and fury’ Declares US nuclear arsenal ‘more powerful than ever’

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump yesterday nor Eddie Calvo reassured residents there was current- ratcheted up his war of words with North Korea, ly “no threat” to the territory, which has a total popula- declaring that America’s nuclear arsenal was “more tion of more than 160,000 and houses two US military powerful than ever”-even as his team insisted there installations. In the capital Hagatna, islanders kept Rosary in hand, Christians was no imminent threat of danger. Hours after put- their cool. “It’s not like there’s anything we can do any- ting Pyongyang on notice that it faced “fire and fury” way. This is a small island. There’s nowhere to run to,” flee Syria’s IS-held Raqa over its weapons and ballistic missile programs, resident James Cruz said AFP. Trump took to Twitter to issue another stark warning. JAZRA: Sawsan Karapetyan and her family lived in fear for together to pray to the Lord so things would be calm,” But after North Korea said it was considering a missile Rapid progress years as some of the only Christians in the Islamic State Karapetyan said, fiddling with her greenish-grey rosary. strike near the US Pacific territory of Guam, Trump’s Experts have long differed over the North’s exact group’s Syrian stronghold Raqa. On Tuesday she fled, clutch- Along with three female and three male relatives, she fled top diplomat delivered a message of reassurance to capabilities but all agree it has made rapid progress ing her rosary. Under the cover of darkness, the 45-year-old Raqa at 3:00 am on Tuesday using an escape route the SMC its residents and military personnel as he made a under Kim. Last month, Pyongyang carried out its Syrian Armenian and six other family members left IS-held opened two days ago. “We lived through the hardest stop-over on the island. first two successful ICBM launches, the first- territory in the northern city on foot. They were rescued by moments these last three days because of the fierce bomb- Trump’s “fire and fury” comments on Tuesday had described by Kim as a gift to “American bastards”- Christian fighters participating in the battle to oust IS from ing. I was terrified for my husband and my family.” triggered expressions of concern from China as well showing it could reach Alaska, and the second Raqa and taken to the safety of the western suburb of Jazra Thousands of Armenians and Syriac Christians once lived as from US allies. Yesterday, stock markets and the extending its range even further, with some experts in the back of a truck. in Raqa, making up around one percent of the city’s popula- dollar slipped as investors sought safe-haven invest- suggesting New York could be vulnerable. “I didn’t want to leave, but there was so much bombard- tion, which is predominantly Sunni Arab. Armenians in Syria ments. Trump’s early morning tweets-written from On Tuesday, The Washington Post quoted a US ment around us that we fled,” said Karapetyan, 45, still clad in are the descendants of those who fled mass killings in New Jersey, where he is on vacation for two weeks- Defense Intelligence Agency analysis as saying offi- the black robes mandated by IS. Like many of the thousands Anatolia at the peak of World War I, massacres the Armenians did little to calm frayed nerves. “My first order as cials think North Korea now has “nuclear weapons for who have fled IS control, they escaped with virtually nothing. see as a genocide, though Turkey rejects the term. When IS President was to renovate and modernize our ballistic missile delivery”-including by its ICBMs-mak- But Karapetyan could not bear to leave behind her rosary, or seized Raqa in 2014, most of the city’s Christians, as well as its nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more pow- ing it a potent threat against neighbors and possibly her pet parrots, “Lover” and “Beloved”. Kurdish population, fled. Under IS rule, Christians face the erful than ever before,” Trump wrote. “Hopefully we the United States. The Pentagon did not comment “It would have been a shame to leave these birds in Raqa. choice of converting to Islam, paying a sectarian tax called will never have to use this power, but there will nev- on the story, but the Post said two US officials famil- I left everything except them,” she said. As she spoke, she jizya, or fleeing under threat of death. The group has regular- er be a time that we are not the most powerful iar with the analysis had verified the assessment’s sipped a cup of tea handed to her by fighters from the Syriac ly destroyed religious symbols and houses of worship, and nation in the world!” broad conclusions, and CNN said it had confirmed Military Council (SMC), a Christian unit battling alongside the Karapetyan’s relative Alexey told AFP she had haunting mem- the report. US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces to oust IS from Raqa. ories of IS’s oppression of Christians. “When IS entered they ‘Americans should sleep well’ The North’s current ability to launch an accurate The anti-IS fighters have captured more than half of the city burned the churches, all the prayer books, the angels, the Trump’s language towards North Korea has become nuclear strike remains open to question, with ana- from IS since first penetrating it two months ago. statue of the Virgin Mary and of Jesus the Messiah,” she increasingly hard-edged since Pyongyang carried out lysts suggesting it has yet to overcome some major The offensive has ravaged the city, leaving civilians caught recalled. The city’s famed Armenian Catholic Church of the a pair of successful intercontinental ballistic missile technical hurdles. After Kim’s second ICBM test, some in the crossfire of mortar rounds, sniper fire, and US-led coali- Martyrs and the Greek Catholic Church of Our Lady of the tests (ICBM) in July, which put the US mainland in experts said it appeared the “re-entry vehicle” that tion air strikes. “When Raqa was bombed, we’d gather Annunciation were both ravaged by jihadists. — AFP range for the first time. Guam-a 210-square-mile dot in would carry a warhead back into Earth’s atmosphere the Pacific that is home to some 6,000 US troops- from space had failed in the intense heat. would be a far easier target were North Korea to con- US officials have repeatedly said this year that mil- firm its position as a fully-fledged nuclear power. itary action against the North was an “option on the Pyongyang’s KCNA state news agency reported table,” though Tillerson said nothing had “dramatical- 200K protesters bring Mumbai to halt yesterday that plans were being drawn up for missile ly changed” in the military equation in the past 24 strikes against Guam that could be put into action at hours. The UN Security Council unanimously MUMBAI: An estimated 200,000 protesters brought India’s finan- fered disappointing rains and crop failures in recent years. More “any moment” after North Korean leader Kim Jong- approved a series of sanctions over the weekend cial capital Mumbai to a halt yesterday as they demanded set than 1,417 farmers killed themselves in Maharashtra in 2016, Un gives the order. US Secretary of State Rex which could cost North Korea $1 billion a year, with quotas for government jobs and colleges amid unemployment according to official figures. Tillerson, who refuelled in Guam on yesterday while even the regime’s main ally China voting for the US- and reduced farm incomes. Many businesses in the southern part Demands for quotas for highly sought-after government jobs flying back home from Southeast Asia, said Trump drafted proposal. While the sanctions vote was seen of Mumbai were closed and traffic was diverted as the protesters, and university places have escalated as unemployment has risen was determined to send an unequivocal message to as a diplomatic triumph for the US, there is wide- largely from rural areas of western Maharashtra state, descended and conditions in rural areas worsened. India reserves places for his North Korean counterpart. “What the president is spread unease about the ramping up in tensions. on the bustling capital in a sea of saffron flags and banners. lower castes to try to bring victims of the country’s worst discrim- doing is sending a strong message to North Korea in The North’s main ally China warned against “words A spokesperson from Mumbai police told AFP an estimated ination into the mainstream, but the policy causes resentment language that Kim Jong-Un would understand, and actions” that would stoke tensions, while 200,000 people participated in the march, which brought rail and among other communities, who say it freezes them out. because he doesn’t seem to understand diplomatic Germany said it was watching the “increasing rhetor- roads to a standstill as protesters from the Maratha community Maharashtra’s Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis responded yes- language,” he said. ical escalation” with concern. France meanwhile pressed their demands. “We want reservations for the Maratha terday with a promise for “regular interaction” with the Maratha Tillerson, however, said that he did not believe praised Trump’s “determination” in standing up to community in government jobs, educational institutes, and bet- community through a committee. India has nearly 260 million “there is any imminent threat” to Guam or other US tar- Pyongyang. Republican US Senator John McCain said ter farm loan waivers,” Bhaiya Patil, one of the organizers said. farmers and farm laborers and over half the population lives in gets and hoped that diplomatic pressure would prevail Trump should tread carefully when speaking about In June, the government in Maharashtra agreed to write off rural areas, but agriculture accounts for just 17 percent of its in the crisis. “I think Americans should sleep well at the North, telling a US radio station: “All it’s going to loans to farmers estimated to be worth nearly $5 billion after 11 gross domestic product. Farmers around the country have been night, have no concerns about this particular rhetoric do is bring us closer to some kind of serious con- days of protests that strangled supplies to Mumbai. Maharashtra pressing for more government assistance, often through of the last few days,” Tillerson said. The island’s gover- frontation.” — AFP is one of several largely agricultural Indian states that have suf- protests. — AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Rouhani names new female vice presidents

TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani two women as vice presidents, who do not require Unsurprised women’s issues,” she said. She highlighted a num- appointed two female vice presidents yesterday parliamentary approval. Massoumeh Ebtekar, In an interview with AFP, the head of the newly ber of legal issues-including the need to gain per- but continued to take flak from reformists for nomi- known internationally for her role as spokesper- formed Reformist Women’s Party, Zahra Shojaei, mission from a male relative to leave the country, nating no women ministers. The appointments son during the 1980 US embassy hostage crisis, said she was unsurprised by the lack of female lower levels of legal compensation and “blood came a day after the moderate president was named as vice president in charge of women’s ministers given the continued opposition of many money” for women, and discriminatory inheritance announced his all-male list of ministers to parlia- affairs, having previously run the environment lawmakers and powerful religious figures behind laws — as areas that needed action. ment, seen as a betrayal by reformists who backed brief in Rouhani’s office. the scenes. A large independent faction of MPs “are “Rouhani has worked on policies of empower- his re-election campaign in May. “It is incredible Laya Joneydi was appointed as the vice presi- still not in favour of female ministers,” said Shojaei. ment for women over the past four years, and we and shocking that the president has ignored the dent for legal affairs, while another woman, But she said female vice presidents actually have want that to continue, as well as amending laws in demands of women in nominating his govern- Shahindokht Mowlaverdi, was named as a special more power than ministers and have already bro- parliament,” she said. The continued fraught issue ment,” Parvaneh Salahshouri, head of a parliamen- adviser for citizens’ rights. Rouhani, a moderate ken the taboo on putting women in positions of of gender in Iranian politics was highlighted over tary women’s group, told lawmakers. cleric who had three female vice presidents during authority. “We have gone past the symbolic stage. the weekend, when EU foreign policy chief Federica A letter calling for female ministers to be his previous term, has several more deputy posi- Female ministers are important but it’s not our only Mogherini led an all-female team for talks with an appointed was signed by 157 of the 290 MPs. tions to fill and it was unclear if any would go to demand. Even if Rouhani had appointed several all-male Iranian contingent led by Foreign Minister There was small comfort in the appointment of women. women ministers, it would not have solved Mohammad Javad Zarif. — AFP

GOP insurgents claiming Trump mantle, spell trouble for party

WASHINGTON: Republicans face a prob- Arizona, GOP incumbent Sen. Jeff Flake, lem as they try to defend a slim majority in another Trump skeptic during last year’s the Senate and win races elsewhere: campaign, faces at least one challenge from Insurgent primary candidates are trying to the right in conservative Kelli Ward, who lay claim to President Donald Trump’s man- repeatedly denounces Flake while praising tle, and knock out the establishment’s Trump. In each case, to their annoyance, choices. The latest case is in Nevada, where establishment-aligned Republicans face the endangered GOP incumbent Sen. Dean prospect of spending millions to protect an Heller drew a challenge Tuesday from busi- incumbent from a challenger who might nessman and repeat failed candidate Danny have a tough time getting out of the gener- Tarkanian, who announced his bid in an al election. Republicans hold a 52-48 Senate early morning Fox News Channel appear- majority and are playing offense against ance seemingly aimed at an audience of Democratic incumbents in 10 states Trump one: the president himself. won. “It’s a critical time to make sure that “We’re never going to make America Republican members know, when they’re great again unless we have senators in casting tough votes, that we’ll have their office that fully support President Trump backs,” said Steven Law, a former McConnell and his America-first agenda,” Tarkanian chief of staff who heads the Senate said, criticizing Heller as “one of the first Leadership Fund, in describing the decision never-Trumpers in Nevada” and arguing he to come in with millions to back Strange in had obstructed Trump’s agenda in Alabama. Congress. Heller opposed early versions of Trump-backed health care legislation in the Underscored questions Senate before voting for a final version that Until Trump weighed in with his failed anyway. His campaign spokesman, endorsement late Tuesday, the Alabama Tommy Ferraro, dismissed Tarkanian as a race had underscored questions about the DOUMA: In a humid room in the besieged Syrian town of Douma, Abu Nabil inspects the pearly white mushrooms sprouting from white sacks “perennial candidate.” The National role the president would play in Senate pri- hanging from a ceiling. — AFP Republican Senatorial Committee, which is maries. A former GOP Senate campaign offi- the official Senate GOP campaign arm, cial with knowledge of the situation said quickly announced its support for Heller, the NRSC has sought help from the Trump Besieged Syria town swaps and a super PAC backed by Majority Leader White House on Senate races but those Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., committed to requests went unanswered under the lead- spending what it takes to support him and ership of recently ousted Chief of Staff other GOP incumbents. Reince Priebus, leading to widespread frus- meat for white mushrooms tration. The former campaign official spoke Dynamic mirrors on condition of anonymity to discuss inter- The dynamic mirrors longstanding clash- nal party matters. While Trump and Vice ‘A good source of proteins and mineral salts’ es between the GOP’s establishment and President Mike Pence have said they want activist wings, which played out disastrous- to increase the Republican majorities in the DOUMA: In a humid room in the besieged Mohieddin. “We learned about it by searching on “The distribution is free for the poorest families, ly in 2010 and 2012 when hard-core conser- House and Senate, the White House’s Syrian town of Douma, Abu Nabil inspects the the internet for places in similar (wartime) situa- and for those suffering malnutrition or spinal cord vatives won Senate primaries but went on approach to contentious primaries isn’t pearly white mushrooms sprouting from white tions to Eastern Ghouta,” he added. injuries that need lots of nutrients,” he added. to lose to Democrats. McConnell and his clear yet. And Trump has already worked sacks hanging from a ceiling. The oyster mush- allies vowed never to let that happen again against McConnell’s goals, ignoring his rooms poking out from holes in the bags are A delicate growing process ‘What’s that? A flower?’ and have subsequently intervened in pri- pleas not to appoint former Montana Rep. now a substitute for meat in the rebel strong- The NGO discovered mushroom farming It’s a major boon for people like Um maries when necessary to produce candi- Ryan Zinke, a likely Senate candidate, as hold, where a government blockade has created required neither large amounts of space, nor Mohammed, a mother-of-four, who can only dates who could win. Interior secretary, while boosting endan- food shortages. major financial investment, making it a good fit dream of affording meat at prices of around $10 a The X factor now is the appeal Trump gered Democratic Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of Abu Nabil walks between the sacks inspecting for their needs. To cultivate the mushrooms, the kilogram. “If you’re able to get mushrooms, it’s a may hold to Republican primary voters - North Dakota and Joe Manchin of West the clusters of mushrooms emerging from the project’s workers begin by sandwiching thin huge blessing,” the 50-year-old said. “It’s as and what Trump himself will do. The presi- Virginia by hosting them at Trump Tower. plastic and checking the internal temperature to slices of high-quality mushroom between pieces though you’re eating a dish of fish or chicken or dent offered one clue Tuesday night, back- As for Heller, he is already walking the ensure conditions are optimal for the unusual of carton and placing the samples in sterile plas- meat,” she added, preparing a dish in her sparsely ing the establishment candidate in next Trump tightrope. Heller’s initial denuncia- crop. Mushrooms are not a common crop in Syria, tic containers. furnished home, wearing a black robe and head- week’s GOP Senate special election primary tion of a Senate plan to repeal and replace and rarely feature in local cuisine. But in the Over the course of 15-25 days, the mushroom scarf. Abu Adnan Al-Sidawi, 30, had never even in Alabama, hours after an Associated Press Obamacare drew the ire of a political non- Eastern Ghouta region, a key rebel bastion outside slivers begin to process fungus that is then tasted mushrooms before he received them story noted the absence so far of a presi- profit promoting Trump’s agenda. America the capital Damascus, years of government siege removed and mixed with sterlised barley grains to through the project. dential endorsement in the race. “Senator First Policies tied Heller to House Minority have put traditional staples like meat far beyond create “seeds”. Next, straw that has been boiled “I received a bowl of mushrooms three or four Luther Strange has done a great job repre- Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in a social the reach of ordinary people. until sterile and then drained is placed on a table weeks ago,” said Sidawi, who suffered multiple senting the people of the Great State of media push and threatened to spend more The Adala Foundation, a local NGO, began and sprayed with gypsum to prepare it for the fractures in his leg and back in an air strike in April. Alabama. He has my complete and total than $1 million trashing him on television thinking about ways to help residents in need of “seeds.” Finally, the straw is packed into the sacks, “I didn’t know what they were and I’d never eaten endorsement!” the president wrote, bypass- and radio on his home turf. McConnell nutritious alternatives. “We turned to cultivating with the mushroom starters sprinkled at intervals them before. I learnt how to cook them from the ing a firebrand House conservative, Mo called the group’s attacks “beyond stupid.” mushrooms because they’re a food that has high on top of the straw as it is layered in. internet,” he said. “On the first day, I fried them up Brooks, and an evangelical former state In addition to the health care episode, nutritional value, similar to meat, and can be The bags are transferred to a room known as with some onions, and on the second day I chief justice, Roy Moore, in favor of the Heller in 2015 said he was donating Trump’s grown inside houses and basements,” said Abu an incubator where they are suspended from the cooked them in a yoghurt sauce,” he said, lying on appointed senator strongly backed by previous campaign contributions to charity Nabil, an engineer who is project director. “We ceiling for between 25 to 45 days, and each pro- a bed in his house. “Mushrooms are delicious McConnell. The candidates are fighting over - a move he announced after Trump came were looking for a good source of proteins and duces between four and five mushroom harvests cooked and we liked them in the yoghurt sauce,” the seat previously held by now-Attorney under fire for characterizing some illegal mineral salts as an alternative to meat, which is before being replaced. The project relies on gener- he said with a smile. General Jeff Sessions. immigrants from Mexico as rapists. For a very expensive,” added Adala’s director Muayad ators to keep conditions steady at 25 degrees Like many adults in Douma, the city’s children But whether Heller will get the presiden- president with a famously long memory for Mohieddin. “We discovered the idea of mush- centigrade and 80 percent humidity. But with fuel were also unfamiliar with the ingredient. At one tial seal of approval in his primary is far less slights, Heller may have little hope of get- rooms as a solution.” also in short supply and expensive, the generators psychosocial centre, the children saw mushrooms clear, and he is not alone. Next door in ting back into his good graces. —AP Eastern Ghouta has been under siege since are fed with a locally produced fuel that is extract- for the first time when they were distributed dur- 2013, leaving locals to rely on food produced ed from plastic. ing the fasting month of Ramadan, an employee locally or smuggled in through tunnels or across In the three months since the project began, said. “I organized a small workshop to teach them checkpoints. While the area was once an impor- the NGO has distributed mushrooms across about it and how it is cooked,” said the employee, tant agricultural region for Syria, mushrooms were Douma and other parts of Eastern Ghouta free of who asked to be identified as Rasha. “When I not a local crop. “This type of cultivation was total- charge. “We distribute nearly 1,300 kilograms of showed it to them, they said to me: ‘Miss, what is ly unknown in Ghouta before the war,” said mushrooms a week to 600 people,” said Abu Nabil. that? A flower?’” — AFP US colleges help students wary of traveling home NEW YORK: Art student Usman Anwar planned existing endowment used to help students in to spend this summer at home in Pakistan, visit- need. A handful of Lawrence University students ing family and hiking with friends, but as he fol- from two countries not on the list, Pakistan and lowed news about President Donald Trump’s Jordan, decided to stay in the US, and the school orders on immigration, he decided it was too in Appleton, Wisconsin, provided reception-type risky to leave the US. “I had a feeling that if I campus jobs for two of them, said Leah McSorley, would go back ... I won’t be able to continue my the associate dean of students for international studies here again,” he said. student services. Instead of visiting Lahore, the 22-year-old Many other schools pointed foreign students sophomore remained at Adelphi University on to support services and legal resources that New York’s Long Island, which provided him with could help with travel questions. “With the uncer- a free room and a campus marketing job - assis- tainty that’s there, I think people have been tance that was key, he said, because his family thinking twice about some of these decisions hadn’t budgeted for the expense and visa restric- and wanting to make sure that they don’t put tions limit off-campus work. Adelphi is among a themselves in situations that could complicate number of US schools that offered housing, their lives,” said Fanta Aw, the interim vice presi- employment or other help to accommodate dent of campus life at American University in international students who stayed because of Washington, DC. The school surveyed interna- the concern and uncertainty surrounding US tional students in the spring and found that requirements since the White House imposed a many planned to stay for summer, often for aca- travel ban on six mainly Muslim countries. demic or professional reasons, but travel and visa A Supreme Court ruling on the travel ban NEW YORK: In this undated photo provided concerns also were a consideration, Aw said. exempted many travelers who have a “bona fide by Adelphi University, student Usman Anwar Anwar said he reconsidered his summer plans relationship” with an entity in the US, such as works at his campus job. — AP after experiencing increased airport scrutiny and those admitted to universities. But educators heightened anxiety among travelers when he who work with and advocate for international national students decided to cancel travel plans returned to New York from a visit in January students say many remain concerned, even if and stay put this summer. Some schools say they shortly before Trump’s inauguration. He’s still they aren’t from the six listed countries - Iran, learned of such students only through efforts to wary about traveling and wonders whether talk- Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. make assistance available. ing about his concerns might cause him trouble “Whether or not the fears that the students in the future. Awaiting fall semester, he has spent have are based in a concrete reality is almost not Travel ban rules his free time sketching or occasionally grabbing relevant,” said Perry Greene, Adelphi’s vice presi- Ohio University said it provided summer halal meals with friends at a Long Island restau- dent for diversity and inclusion. “What’s relevant housing or dining accommodations for 18 stu- rant. He is getting homesick and wants to visit is the anxiety and fear that for our students was dents from the countries in Trump’s temporary Pakistan during winter break - maybe, “if the situ- quite real.” It’s unknown exactly how many inter- travel ban rules, covering the costs through an ation changes.” — AP THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Mormon leader excommunicated for the first time in three decades SALT LAKE CITY: A Mormon church leader was then that Lee was removed for “apostasy and other well-regarded and was even considered by some bers of the Mormon religion, but it may not cause removed from his post and kicked out of the reli- conduct unbecoming a member of the church.” outside Mormon scholars as a possible candidate to a huge stir because it may be the first time many gion Tuesday for the first time in nearly three The last church leader removed before Lee was join the high-level Quorum of the Twelve Apostles have heard of Hamula, Bowman said. Hamula was decades. James J Hamula was released from a mid- Richard R Lyman, who was excommunicated in when the church was filling three vacancies in 2015, born in Long Beach, California, and is married level leadership council based on disciplinary 1943 for adultery but baptized again 11 years later. said Matthew Bowman, a Mormon scholar and his- with six children, according to his church biogra- action by the religion’s highest leaders, said Eric Hamula became a member of a group called the tory professor at Henderson State University. phy. He was a lawyer until joining the leadership Hawkins, a spokesman for The Church of Jesus “General Authority Seventy” in 2008. It is a group of Hamula was not chosen, but he was still consid- council in 2008. That year, he gave a speech at a Christ of Latter-day Saints. nearly 90 leaders that sit below the church presi- ered an up-and-comer destined for more impor- Mormon conference watched by millions about Hawkins didn’t say why Hamula was ousted, but dent, his two counselors and two other levels of tant assignments, Bowman said. In recent years, choosing good over evil. the Utah-based church said it was not for apostasy, leaders. They help run church operations by serving Hamula served in important roles as assistant “Satan is marshaling every resource at his dispos- which refers to teaching inaccurate doctrine or pub- as a bridge between local lay leaders in Mormon executive director of church history and executive al to entice you into transgression,” Hamula said. “He licly defying guidance from church leaders. Efforts to congregations around the world and the top lead- director of a department that reviews all docu- knows that if he can draw you into transgression, he reach Hamula at listed phone numbers were not suc- ers working at church headquarters in Salt Lake City. ments published by the church. “He had a promis- may prevent you from serving a full-time mission, cessful. The last leader to be excommunicated was ing future,” Bowman said. marrying in the temple, and securing your future the late George P. Lee in 1989 after Lee, an American Well-regarded His removal will likely be talked about among children in the faith, all of which weakens not only Indian, called Mormon leaders racist. The church said Hamula’s removal is surprising because he was some of the nearly 16 million worldwide mem- you but the church.” —AP Kenya tensions spike as oppn cries foul over election result Rival claims massive hacking attack manipulated results NAIROBI: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta raised the spectre of electoral violence in Kenya, shall carry out investigations to establish appeared headed for re-election yesterday but still traumatized by the memory of bloody post- whether or not the (hacking) claims are true,” he his rival Raila Odinga claimed a massive hacking poll clashes a decade ago which left 1,100 peo- said, adding that the IEBC had a week to release attack had manipulated results, ratcheting up ple dead and 600,000 displaced. final results. tensions in opposition strongholds. Police fired Odinga detailed accusations of a massive Raphael Tuju, secretary-general of Kenyatta’s tear gas to disperse a few hundred protesters in hacking attack on the electronic system, saying Jubilee party, urged the opposition to “look at Kisumu in western Kenya as well as in Nairobi’s hackers had gained entry to the system using the figures soberly” and accept the results. “You Mathare slum, with Odinga’s supporters setting the identity of top IT official Chris Msando, who cannot claim that results are fake with respect to up burning barricades and blocking roads with was found murdered and tortured late last presidential vote and you welcome the areas debris in both spots, AFP reporters said. month. “This is an attack on our democracy. The where your governors and MPs have won con- With votes from 95 percent of polling stations 2017 general election was a fraud,” said Odinga, vincingly. You have to accept the results howev- er they come,” he said. Odinga urged his sup- porters to “remain calm as we look deep into this matter.” But he added: “I don’t control the people.” As his speech ended scores of supporters gath- PARIS: French Police work on the scene where French soldiers were hit and injured by ered at a roundabout in Kisumu and began burn- a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret. —AP ing tyres, while others gathered in the Nairobi slum of Mathare under a heavy police presence. Suspect jailed after car rams Police fired shots into the air and volleys of tear gas to disperse protesters in Mathare who into Paris anti-terror troops set up burning barricades in some roads. “If Raila is not president, we can’t have peace,” one PARIS: French police shot and arrested a geted France because of its participation in Kisumu protester told AFP. Resident Geoffery suspect in a dramatic motorway chase yes- the US-led international coalition fighting Omondi, 22 shook his head as protesters lit a terday after a car smashed into soldiers the jihadist group, with French jets carrying new fire nearby. “It is very painful to watch. The outside a barracks in a Paris suburb, injur- out air strikes in Syria. “Security forces are problem is the IEBC who did not announce ing six. The suspected terror attack is the actively seeking the perpetrator who is on results well.” However the protests remained iso- latest in a string of assaults that have hit the run. The ongoing probe will determine lated, and in opposition strongholds where elec- France since January 2015, claiming more his motives and the circumstances in which tions tend to stoke tensions. Nevertheless the than 230 lives. he acted,” Parly said in a statement earlier. normally traffic-choked streets of Nairobi The servicemen were hit by a BMW remained deserted as the country held its breath which drove down a quiet street in the Latest attack over the results. upmarket western Paris suburb of Levallois- The incident came just four days after Perret at around 8:00 am. It accelerated as it Sentinelle soldiers intervened to control an Dynastic rivalry neared the troops, rammed into them and 18-year-old with a history of psychological The contest between Odinga and Kenyatta then sped away. “I heard a huge crash problems at the Eiffel Tower where he bran- was seen by pollsters as too close to call ahead which I thought was the sound of scaffold- dished a knife and shouted “Allahu Akbar” of the vote. It is the second time the two men ing being put up,” Thierry Chappe, a resi- (God is Greatest). He told investigators he have faced off in a presidential election, a dynas- dent in a building opposite the crime wanted to kill a soldier, sources close to the NAIROBI: Residents of the Mathare area of Nairobi, Kenya, take to the streets by blocking tic rivalry that has lasted more than half a centu- scene, told AFP. case told AFP. roads with burning tires to protest in support of Kenyan opposition leader and presidential ry since their fathers Jomo Kenyatta and Police later gave chase to the vehicle In February, a man armed with a candidate Raila Odinga. —AP Jaramogi Odinga went from allies in the struggle on a motorway north of Paris, and shot machete attacked four soldiers on patrol at counted, electoral commission (IEBC) results claiming detailed evidence of the hacker’s for independence to bitter rivals. and wounded the suspect, a man aged in Paris’s Louvre Museum, while in April showed Kenyatta leading with 54 percent of the movements. He would not say how he got the The men belong to two of Kenya’s main eth- his late 30s who was also arrested, another extremist shot and killed a police- over 14 million ballots tallied against Odinga’s information, as he wanted to “protect his source”. nic groups, Kenyatta from the Kikuyu, the sources involved in the manhunt said, man on the Champs-Elysees, the French 44.7 percent. “These results are fake, it is a sham. The 72-year-old, who is making his fourth bid for largest, and Odinga from the Luo. Both had speaking on condition of anonymity. capital’s most famous boulevard. In June, a They cannot be credible,” Odinga told a press the presidency as the flagbearer for the National secured formidable alliances with other influ- Interior Minister Gerard Collomb 40-year-old Algerian doctorate student conference in the early hours of Wednesday as Super Alliance (NASA) coalition, accused his ential communities in Kenya, where voting described the act as “deliberate” and car- who had pledged allegiance to IS attacked partial results streamed onto a public website rivals of stealing victory from him through rig- takes place largely along tribal lines. In 2013 ried out by a “man on his own”. a policeman with a hammer outside Notre via an electronic tallying system aimed at pre- ging in 2007 and in 2013. “You can only cheat a Kenyatta won by 800,000 votes. Kenyatta, 55, is He spoke after visiting three of the Dame cathedral. venting fraud. people for so long,” he said. credited with overseeing steady economic injured soldiers along with Defence The wave of attacks in France has had a The IEBC said the results could not be consid- growth of more than five percent. However Minister Florence Parly. All six were taken to serious impact on tourism in the world’s ered official until they were verified by original ‘Free and fair’ food prices have soared under his watch and hospital, but none has life-threatening top tourist destination, but the industry has documents from polling stations. Odinga’s accu- IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati insisted the several major corruption scandals broke out in injuries, they said. They were part of the begun to recover as incidents have become sations, and the reaction of his supporters, again poll was “free and fair”. “As a commission we his first term. —AFP 7,000-strong anti-terrorism Sentinelle force more widespread and generally less deadly. set up in January 2015 which sees armed, The attack took place as the new centrist uniformed soldiers patrol the streets and government was holding its last cabinet guard high-risk areas such as tourist sites meeting before the summer holidays. US back road is route to hope and religious buildings. President Emmanuel Macron publicly Collomb said the forces had been clashed with the head of the French armed attacked on six different occasions since forces last month over a proposed cut to the 2015. The country has been under a state military budget this year. Macron slapped in Canada for many migrants of emergency since major attacks in Paris in down General Pierre de Villiers, telling him November 2015. The Paris prosecutors’ “I’m your boss”, after he complained about CHAMPLAIN, NY: They have come from all over office said its anti-terrorism unit has the impact of the cuts at a time when the the United States, piling out of taxis, pushing launched a probe into “attempted killings... army was in action in the Middle East and strollers and pulling luggage, to the end of a in relation to a terrorist undertaking”. The West Africa as well as at home. De Villiers country road in the north woods. Where the Islamic State group (IS) has repeatedly tar- resigned a few days later. — AFP pavement stops, they pick up small children and lead older ones wearing Mickey Mouse back- packs around a “road closed” sign, threading bushes, crossing a ditch, and filing past another Despite Venezuela’s growing sign in French and English that says “No pedes- trians.” Then they are arrested. isolation, key allies hang on Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, migrants MADRID: Nicolas Maduro’s government in gy to Venezuela in 2006, Caracas turned who came to the US from across the globe - Venezuela is increasingly isolated but it to Russia and China instead. Moscow, Syria, Congo, Haiti, elsewhere - arrive here where still counts powerful support from coun- which considers Caracas a “key strategic Roxham Road dead-ends so they can walk into tries such as Russia and China that can partner”, has criticised the Venezuelan Canada, hoping its policies will give them the block or delay punitive action from the opposition for “disrupting” recent elec- security they believe the political climate in the likes of the United Nations, analysts say. As tions for a Constituent Assembly-known United States does not. the economic and political situation dete- in Spanish as the Constituyente-that will “In Trump’s country, they want to put us back riorates in the Latin American country, rewrite the constitution. to our country,” said Lena Gunja, a 10-year-old with close to 130 people killed in anti- The opposition has criticized the from Congo, who until this week had been living regime protests, international condemna- assembly, filled with Maduro loyalists, as a in Portland, Maine. She was traveling with her tion of the leftist government of Caracas power grab and attempt to install a “com- mother, father and younger sister. “So we don’t QUEBEC: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, left, standing in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, has increased, with the United States slap- munist dictatorship.” But according to want that to happen to us, so we want a good life Quebec, advises migrants that they are about to illegally cross from Champlain, NY, and will be ping Maduro himself with direct sanctions. Anna Ayuso, a researcher focused on Latin for us. My mother, she wants a good life for us.” arrested, Monday, Aug 7, 2017. —AP This week, the UN rights office America at the Barcelona-based CIDOB The passage has become so crowded this legal port of entry, they would be returned to 2010 earthquake that gave about 58,000 slammed it for using “excessive force” thinktank, “the key support is that of summer that Canadian police set up a reception the United States and told to apply there. But, in Haitians permission to stay temporarily in the against protesters and a dozen American China, which has invested more than $60 center on their side of the border in the Quebec a quirk in the application of the law, if migrants US. Walking toward the border in a group on nations including Brazil, Mexico, Argentina billion and has given loans in exchange for community of Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, about arrive in Canada at a location other than a port Monday, Medyne Milord, 47, originally of Haiti, and Canada issued a joint statement con- oil and mining concession.” “Maduro is the 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Montreal, or of entry, such as Roxham Road, they are allowed said she needs work to support her family. demning “the break in democratic rule” in one guaranteeing its investments.” almost 300 miles (480 kilometers) north of New to request refugee status there. “If I return to Haiti, the problem will double,” the country. Nevertheless, Maduro still has Another ally is Iran, which has shown sup- York City. It includes tents that have popped up Many take buses to Plattsburgh, New York, she said. “What I hope is to have a better life in varying degrees of support around the port for the new assembly, even if ties are in the past few weeks, where migrants are about 20 miles south. Some fly there, and others Canada.” Jean Rigaud Liberal, 38, said he had world, from both an ideological and finan- not as strong as they once were under for- processed before they are turned over to the take Amtrak. Sometimes taxis carry people right been in the United States for seven months and cial standpoint. mer Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Canada Border Services Agency, which handles up to the border. Others are let off up the road lived in Florida after he left Haiti. He learned their applications for refuge. and have to walk, pulling their luggage behind about Roxham Road from Facebook and said he China, Russia key allies No EU sanctions The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are them. Used bus tickets litter the pavement, their thinks “Canada will be better than America.” “We “In almost all cases, support for In Latin America itself, “Cuba, Bolivia adding electricity and portable toilets. A points of origin mostly blurred by rain that fell are not comfortable in America,” Liberal said. “We Venezuela is strategic,” says Michael Shifter and Nicaragua close ranks with Maduro” Canadian flag stands just inside the first tent, on nights previous. One read “Jacksonville.” are seeking a better life; we don’t want to go of the US-based Inter-American Dialogue as they share his leftist ideology as well as where the Mounties search the immigrants One Syrian family said they flew into New back to Haiti.” research centre. “China is looking to pro- fierce anti-imperialist feelings towards they’ve just arrested and check their travel docu- York City on tourist visas and then went to tect long-term access to Venezuela’s oil the United States, Anna Ayuso said. Paul ments. They are also offered food. Then shuttle Plattsburgh, where they took a taxi to the bor- Not our mission reserves, small countries in the Caribbean Hare, a former British ambassador in buses take the processed migrants to their next der. The migrants say they are driven by the per- On the New York side, US Border Patrol agents and Central America are hedging their Cuba and professor at Boston University, destination. Trucks carry their luggage separately. ception that the age of Republican President sometimes check to be sure the migrants are in bets and avoiding the messiness of con- said other regional allies also “find it diffi- How this spot, not even an official border cross- Donald Trump, with his calls for bans on people the United States legally, but they said they don’t frontation.” Venezuela has the support of cult to break with the Chavez legacy ing, became the favored place to cross into from certain majority-Muslim countries, means have the resources to do it all the time. Besides, both China and Russia, two countries tra- which gave them” cut-rate crude as part Canada is anyone’s guess. But once migrants the United States is no longer the destination of said Brad Brant, a special operations supervisor ditionally opposed to international sanc- of the Petrocaribe 17-nation club. started going there, word spread on social media. the world’s dispossessed. Taking its place in their for the US Border Patrol, “our mission isn’t to pre- tions that hold all-powerful vetos in the He adds that the Organization of minds is the Canada of Prime Minister Justin vent people from leaving.” Small numbers contin- UN Security Council. American States, where all 34 member Legal port Trudeau, a member of his country’s Liberal Party. ue to cross into Canada elsewhere, but the vast They have invested heavily in the coun- states have a vote, has been incapable of Under the 2002 Safe Country Agreement Most of the people making the crossing now majority take Roxham Road. US officials said they try’s oil sector, and when the United States adopting measures to try and solve the between the United States and Canada, are originally from Haiti. The Trump administra- began to notice last fall, around the time of the banned the sale and transfer of north crisis as Venezuela has rejected them as migrants seeking asylum must apply to the first tion said this year it planned to end in January a US presidential election, that more people were American weapons and military technolo- meddling. — AFP country they arrive in. If they were to go to a special humanitarian program enacted after the crossing there. —AP THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Families recount horrifying, bloody Taleban, IS massacre

MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Taleban and Islamic provincial officials struck a deal with added. Villager Yasin Abuzar said IS have come to Sar-e Pul city need shel- mosque in Afghanistan’s western city State fighters unleashed a killing spree the group. Survivors fleeing the vio- and Taleban fighters cut off the main ters and food. They are living in the of Herat, in an attack claimed by group. targeting civilians after capturing a lence described nightmarish scenes, roads to the area before launching a mosques, schools, with their relatives A resurgent Taleban, whose ranks are remote village in northern detailing how the militants went from killing spree. “I could only rescue my and some even on the streets,” mostly made up of Sunni Muslim eth- Afghanistan, traumatized families said house to house, shooting villagers. kids. When they entered our village Zabiullah Amani, a provincial nic Pashtuns, is at the peak of its sum- yesterday after being released by the “When the fighting began, the vil- they opened fire at everyone indis- spokesman, told AFP. “If aid agencies mer fighting season. The Taleban con- insurgents. The militants killed about lagers tried to flee, but they were criminately, they didn’t even spare don’t help we will face a humanitarian firmed capturing Mirzawalang but 50 villagers, including women and stopped by IS fighters. They took a women and children,” he said, adding crisis,” he added. The villagers said said it did so alone. It has also denied children in Mirzawalang-a mainly group of men, women and children that hundreds were still missing. “I most of those killed were Shiites and allegations it had killed civilians. Army Shiite village in Sayad district of north- behind a hill and shot them,” said Ali buried 10 bodies in one grave. We Hazaras who were either shot or spokesman Nasratullah Jamshidi said ern Sar-e Pul province-on Saturday Dad Zafari, a Mirzawalang resident. don’t want the government to give us beheaded. Afghan forces launched an operation after overrunning a government- coffins, we want them to provide us IS has given a sectarian twist to the yesterday to retake the district. “We backed militia, said officials. ‘I buried 10 bodies in one grave’ security,” he said. Afghan conflict, with a number of will avenge the blood of our innocent The insurgents also took a number “Since my mother was too old to Local officials called for more aid as deadly attacks on Shiites in the past people,” Mohammad Zahir Wahdat, of residents captive, but released 235 walk, she was left behind, I don’t even hundreds of displaced arrived in the year. Last week two suicide bombers the provincial governor, told hostages late Tuesday after elders and know what has happened to her,” he provincial capital. “The families who killed more than 33 worshippers at a reporters. —AFP Nearly 60,000 evacuated after China quake kills 19 6.5 magnitude quake cracks highways, triggers landslides

CHENGDU: China yesterday evacuat- who gave only her surname, Yan, been deployed to the Jiuzhaigou outside right away.” Several people ed nearly 60,000 people in its moun- told AFP by phone. “We slept area, along with hundreds of vehi- contacted by AFP reported seeing tainous southwest after a strong overnight in tour buses and have cles, and dozens of sniffer dogs and some structures collapse. Others, earthquake killed at least 19 people, been staying in the open ground. devices used to detect life under- speaking from the road amid an rattling a region where memories of Landslides are pretty bad, rocks neath rubble. exodus on traffic-choked mountain a 2008 seismic disaster remain fresh. keep falling down.” China’s official A stream of empty tour buses highways, reported cars being hit by The 6.5-magnitude earthquake earthquake monitoring agency said bearing the sign “Emergency Rescue persistent rockfalls in the quake’s struck Sichuan province late on more than 1,000 aftershocks had Vehicle” made their way across the aftermath. Tuesday, tearing cracks in mountain been detected, the most powerful highway toward the disaster zone The 2008 quake set off deadly highways, triggering landslides, dam- reaching magnitude 4.8 yesterday yesterday afternoon. The quake landslides in the region, obliterat- aging buildings and sending pan- morning. More than 2,000 kilome- struck at a shallow depth of 10 kilo- ing towns and damming rivers-cre- icked residents and tourists fleeing ters to the northwest, a 6.3-magni- meters, the USGS said, and was ating menacing “quake lakes” that ISLAMABAD: Supporters of Pakistan’s deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif into the open. tude tremor shook the far-western reportedly felt hundreds of kilome- forced the evacuation of thou- shout slogans against the opposition during a rally. —AP The provincial government said yesterday afternoon that most of the tourists-many stranded at a popular Deposed Pakistani PM national park near the epicenter-have been evacuated after spending a nervous night out in the open as begins 2 days of rallies more than 1,000 aftershocks rippled across the region. Locals will also be RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s deposed prime even sacrifice their life for Sharif. moved to safer ground, according to minister Nawaz Sharif began two days of Local police officer Mohammad the authorities. rallies yesterday aimed at demonstrating Ramzan estimated that up to 30,000 peo- The area’s difficult geography-and his political strength, making stops from ple were accompanying the convoy when travel restrictions quickly imposed by the capital Islamabad to his hometown of it headed to the nearby garrison city of authorities-have so far prevented a Lahore, ignoring security threats and Rawalpindi. Earlier, Asif Kirmani, a lawmak- clear picture of the scale of the disas- drawing thousands of supporters. Sharif er from Sharif’s party, said vehicles carry- ter from emerging, but there were no planned to spend at least two nights ing supporters will pass through reports of catastrophic damage or along Grand Trunk Road, the main road Islamabad’s key road before entering large-scale casualties by yesterday from Islamabad to Lahore, in his first pub- Rawalpindi. From there the rally will con- afternoon. The quake killed at least lic appearances since July 28, when the tinue on the main road leading to Lahore. 19 people and injured at least 247, 40 country’s Supreme Court disqualified him The rally comes a day after Sharif said of them seriously, according to the from serving for concealing his assets. he was determined to go to his home local government of Aba prefecture Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, despite Monday’s truck bombing in where the epicenter was located. who replaced Sharif days after his removal Lahore, in which two persons were killed. Two foreign nationals, a French from office, hugged the three-time pre- Former information minister Pervaiz man and a Canadian woman, are mier as he boarded a vehicle along with Rashid and top leaders from Sharif’s party among the injured. Images on social his supporters. Abbasi is a lawmaker from were seen in his car as he started his jour- media or in state news outlets Sharif’s ruling Pakistan Muslim League ney amid claims from opponents that showed cars and buses tossed into party. Sharif’s supporters showered rose Sharif’s political career had ended after his ravines or crushed by giant boulders petals on his vehicle and waved national disqualification by the court. jolted loose from surrounding hills, and ruling party flags, chanting: “My Lion, and rescue personnel combing your lion, Nawaz Sharif, Nawaz Sharif.” The Not the end through rubble for any victims. Aerial lion was Sharif’s election symbol when he Sharif insists his removal from office did footage broadcast by state-run Xinhua news agency showed pictur- SICHUAN PROVINCE: In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, medical person- won the 2013 vote. not mean the end of his future in politics. nel treat an injured man at the People’s Hospital in Jiuzhaigou county. —AP He plans to file a review petition in an esque green-forested mountains ‘Sea of people’ effort to get his disqualification reversed. now scarred by huge gouges from Despite the heat and humidity, hun- Sharif says he wants to start a debate in giant landslides that sent clouds of border region of Xinjiang on ters from the epicentre. Shallow sands downstream as the army dreds of people walked for about 2 kilo- parliament and the public to discuss why dust into the air. Wednesday morning, according to quakes tend to cause more surface worked to clear the blockages. The meters with Sharif’s slow-moving convoy, no elected prime minister has completed the US Geological Survey. The damage. It evoked memories of a Red Cross Society of China said it as volunteers distributed bottles of water. their full term in Pakistan, which has been ‘We just ran’ Xinjiang quake, which was followed massive 8.0-magnitude earthquake was sending emergency specialists Sharif’s party decorated the route with his ruled by army generals for more than half The quake’s epicenter was near by aftershocks of 5.2 and 5.3 magni- that devastated wide areas of the and volunteers, while Save the portraits and national flags. Hours later, of its 70-year history. Jiuzhaigou, a national park and tude, injured 32 people and dam- same region in 2008, leaving 87,000 Children was also mobilizing Sharif reached the garrison city of Sharif has a history of rocky relations UNESCO World Heritage Site famed aged more than 1,000 homes, people dead or missing in China’s teams. “Given the frequent land- Rawalpindi in a sports vehicle and moved with the military, but since his removal he for its karst rock formations, water- Xinhua said. worst seismic disaster in a generation. slides in the rainy season and to an elaborately equipped container has exercised restraint in commenting on falls and lakes. Xinhua said at least “I was also in Jiuzhaigou in 2008 potential massive secondary disas- truck that was fitted with beds, air-condi- the sensitive issue of civil-military rela- five of the deaths occurred there, ‘All-out efforts’ during the last big quake, so I knew ter following the big earthquake, tioning and bathroom. tions. Last month’s removal of Sharif and that more than 30,000 people President Xi Jinping called for what it was. This felt even stronger,” Save the Children is deeply con- In Rawalpindi, Rana Sanaullah, a briefly plunged Pakistan into political tur- had been evacuated from “all-out efforts to rapidly organize local restaurant owner Tang cerned about the safety of children provincial minister for law, said the “sea of moil but parliament later elected senior Jiuzhaigou alone. “Nearly all the relief work and rescue the injured” Sesheng told AFP by phone. and women in the affected areas,” people” who joined the rally proves that lawmaker Abbasi as the country’s new tourists are being evacuated,” a in the Sichuan quake. Hundreds of “People didn’t dare grab anything said the charity’s operations direc- Sharif “can be expelled from power but prime minister. Sharif’s party initially Jiuzhaigou tour company worker soldiers and rescue personnel had like money or clothes-we just all ran tor in China, Zhang Hongxia. —AFP not from hearts.” Jamshed Ahmed Khan, a wanted Abbasi to serve as an interim pre- local trader, said the hot weather could mier for 45 days until Sharif’s younger not deter them from coming out to sup- brother, Shahbaz Sharif, the chief minister port their leader. Two youths, Hamid Ali of Punjab, secures a national assembly A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki and Baz Mohammad, who came from the seat in a by-election. But now Sharif says northwestern town of Sawabi to show his party won’t replace Abbasi with his their solidarity with Sharif, said they would brother. —AP amid US-North Korea tension

TOKYO: Amid growing tension between threats. President Donald Trump threatened North bombing of Nagasaki three days later killed 70,000 Washington and North Korea, the mayor of Korea “with fire and fury” and North Korea’s military more. At 11:02 am, when the bomb struck 72 years Gay marriage vote sparks Nagasaki said yesterday that the fear of another said yesterday that it was examining its plans for ago, people at the ceremony observed a moment nuclear bomb attack is growing at a ceremony attacking Guam. “The international situation sur- of silence as the peace bell rang. “The nuclear fury, debate in Australia marking the 72nd anniversary of the US atomic rounding nuclear weapons is becoming increas- threat will not end as long as nations continue to bombing of his city. Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue ingly tense,” Taue said at Nagasaki’s Peace Park. “A claim that nuclear weapons are essential for their SYDNEY: Australia’s bitter political battle house, where the Liberals could cast a free urged nuclear states to abandon such weapons strong sense of anxiety is spreading across the national security,” Taue said. over legalizing gay marriage came to a head vote by December. If “no” is the result, the and criticized Japan’s government for not taking globe that in the not too distant future these Taue sharply criticized Prime Minister Shinzo yesterday, with the government pushing issue will not go to parliament. Marriage part in the global effort toward a nuclear ban. weapons could actually be used again.” Abe’s government for what he said were empty ahead with a postal vote after parliament equality advocates have vowed to challenge The bombing anniversary comes just as The world’s first atomic bomb, used on Aug. 6, promises about working to achieve a nuclear-free rejected a referendum-both options bitterly the postal vote in court, saying the govern- Pyongyang and Washington are trading escalating 1945, killed 140,000 people in Hiroshima. The world. He said Japan’s absence even during diplo- opposed by activists. Polls indicate popular ment might be exceeding its executive matic negotiations for the UN Nuclear Prohibition support in Australia for marriage equality, authority in holding it, casting doubt on Treaty, adopted in July, is “incomprehensible to but the issue has dragged on for more than a whether the ballot would go ahead. those of us living in the cities that suffered atomic decade amid political wrangling over the Supporters also fear the postal option bombings.” best way to vote on the issue. could disenfranchise younger Australians- The outspoken mayor praised the atomic The conservative Liberal-National coali- usually more supportive of same-sex mar- bombing survivors, or “hibakusha,” for their lifelong tion last year went to the polls promising to riage-who are less likely to use the mailing devotion to the effort. He urged Japan’s govern- hold a nationwide plebiscite, but the opposi- system. Former conservative prime minister ment to change its policy of relying on the US tion Labor Party, Greens and crossbench sen- Tony Abbott yesterday welcomed the nuclear umbrella and join the nuclear prohibition ators yesterday rejected the option in the postal vote, kicking off the “no” campaign. treaty as soon as possible. “Nuclear weapons are upper house Senate for the second time. The “If you don’t like same-sex marriage, vote incompatible with mankind,” said Yoshitoshi opposition, along with many gay rights cam- no,” he told reporters. “If you are worried Fukahori, an 88-year-old survivor of the Nagasaki paigners, favor a free vote among MPs, with about religious freedom and freedom of atomic bombing who lost his sister in the blast. He parliamentarians not bound by party policy. speech, vote no. If you don’t like political said that as he rushed home the morning after the correctness, vote no.” bombing, the shocking view from the hilltop - his Vote challenged Labor senator Penny Wong made an hometown flattened and the landmark Catholic They say a national vote is costly and will impassioned speech in parliament, accusing church on fire - made him cry. prove divisive, subjecting gay people and the government of “handball(ing) a hard Fukahori, who operates a library of atomic their families to hate speech. Prime Minister decision to the community” and also of fail- bombing photos, said Japan, which has since Malcolm Turnbull Tuesday committed ing to defend the LGBTI community against rebuilt itself as a pacifist nation, should never lose Aus$122 million (US$97 million) to the postal hate speech. “Let me say, for many children the respect and trust it has regained from the inter- vote, run by the Australian Bureau of in same-sex couple parented families and for national community. Abe, in a speech that was Statistics, with ballot papers sent out by many young LGBTI kids, this ain’t a respectful almost a repeat of what he said in Hiroshima, did September 12 and due back early November. debate,” she said. Same-sex couples can have not mention the UN nuclear ban treaty. More than “Strong leaders carry out their promises. civil unions or register their relationships in 175,000 hibakusha have died in Nagasaki since the Weak leaders break them,” he said. If it most states across Australia, but the govern- attack, including 3,551 in the past year, while over returns a “yes” outcome, the government will ment does not consider them married under NAGASAKI: Doves fly over the Statue of Peace at Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, 300,000 of their peers have died in Hiroshima. The table a private bill on parliament’s lower national law. —AFP southern Japan during a ceremony to mark the 72nd anniversary of the world’s sec- average age of the survivors is more than 81 years. ond atomic bomb attack over the city. —AP Many suffer from lasting effects of radiation. —AP THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 ANALYSIS

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he strongest sanctions yet against North Korea could still prove no match for the communist Tcountry’s relentless nuclear weapons ambitions. While the United States hails a new package of UN penalties that could cut a third of North Korea’s exports, the sanctions themselves aren’t the American objective. They’re only a tactic for getting Kim Jong Un’s totalitari- an government to end its missile advances and atomic weapons tests. And there is little evidence to suggest this newest round of economic pressure will be more successful than previous efforts. Nevertheless, President Donald Trump on Tuesday hailed the sanctions as necessary “to finally address the dangers posed by North Korea.” He tweeted: “We must be tough & decisive!” Whatever the economic pain on Pyongyang, Kim’s government has expressed no interest in negotiating away its fast-growing arsenal of perhaps 20 nuclear bombs and the ballistic missiles needed to deliver them. For the young North Korean leader, the Secrecy preceded US weed killer crisis weapons are fundamental to the survival of his authori- tarian regime, even if they deepen diplomatic isolation s the US growing season entered its peak this sum- out the company’s rationale for blocking the independent requested such testing. It also did not address whether and bring even more extreme poverty for his long-suf- mer, farmers began posting startling pictures on research at a hearing of the Arkansas Plant Board’s the lack of independent research played into its decision fering people. Asocial media: fields of beans, peach orchards and Pesticide Committee in the summer of 2016. A meeting to give the product an abridged two-year registration, less And the sanctions may not prove effective. The North vegetable gardens withering away. The photographs summary by the Arkansas Legislature’s Joint Budget than the 20 years experts say is more common. The has learned through decades of U.S. efforts at isolation served as early warnings of a crisis that has damaged mil- Committee described Carey’s testimony as follows: “Boyd agency did the same for BASF’s Engenia. how to circumvent commercial and financial restric- lions of acres of farmland. New versions of the herbicide Carey is on record on Aug 8 stating that the University of “The EPA placed time limits on the registration to allow tions, and reluctant powers like China and Russia have dicamba developed by Monsanto and BASF, according to Arkansas nor any other university was given the opportu- the agency to either let it expire or to easily make the nec- often proven half-hearted partners when it comes to farmers, have drifted across fields to crops unable to with- nity to test VaporGrip in fear that the results may jeopard- essary changes in the registration if there are problems,” policing their ally. “On paper, this is a pretty strict con- stand it, a charge authorities are investigating. ize the federal label.” Graham, the EPA spokeswoman, said. After the EPA signed tainment of North Korea economically,” said Scott As the crisis intensifies, new details provided to Reuters Efforts to reach Carey were not successful. Monsanto off, Monsanto sought approval from individual states, Snyder, an expert on the Koreas at the Council on by independent researchers and regulators, and previous- declined to comment on his testimony. To be sure, com- which determine whether agricultural products are suit- Foreign Relations. “But North Korea has been able to ly unreported testimony by a company employee, demon- plaints about damaged crops are still under investigation able for their climates and geographies. evade sanctions in the past and it’s not clear to me strate the unusual way Monsanto introduced its product. and there is no evidence that independent testing of To help them do that, Monsanto shared its XtendiMax things are going to be much different this time.” The approach, in which Monsanto prevented key inde- XtendiMax’s volatility would have altered the course of the testing results with state regulators. But it only supplied Speaking in the Philippines after meeting Asian for- pendent testing of its product, went unchallenged by the crisis. But it would have given regulators a more complete that data in finished form, Monsanto’s Carey told the eign ministers, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Environmental Protection Agency and nearly every state picture of the formula’s properties as they decided if and Arkansas Plant Board meeting, meaning it withheld under- Monday said there is “no daylight” in the view among regulator. how to let farmers use it, agriculture experts said. lying data that could be analyzed independently by the Washington and its partners that North Korea must Typically, when a company develops a new agricultural In the end, the EPA approved the product without the regulators. Only Arkansas wanted more. Terry Walker, the move toward abandoning its nuclear weapons. But he product, it commissions its own tests and shares the added testing in September. It said it made its decision director of the Arkansas Plant Board, said the state asked was quick to stress the importance of everyone enforc- results and data with regulators. It also provides product after reviewing company-supplied data, including some Monsanto for extra testing, but the company refused. “As ing the new, tougher sanctions. “We will be monitoring samples to universities for additional scrutiny. Regulators measuring volatility. “EPA’s analysis of the data has shown the system progressed and it got closer to EPA approval, that carefully,” he said. and university researchers then work together to deter- reduced volatility potential with newer formulations,” the the board kept asking for local data,” Walker said. “That did The UN penalties aim to cut off roughly $1 billion of mine the safety of the product. In this case, Monsanto EPA said in a July 27 statement. However, EPA spokes- not happen.” North Korea’s estimated $3 billion in annual exports, by denied requests by university researchers to study its woman Amy Graham told Reuters the agency is “very con- Monsanto’s Fraley said the company could not honor banning countries from importing its coal, iron, lead and XtendiMax with VaporGrip for volatility - a measure of its cerned about the recent reports of crop damage” and is Arkansas’ request within the EPA’s timeline. “Given the tim- seafood products, and stopping them from letting in tendency to vaporize and drift across fields. reviewing restrictions on dicamba labels. Monsanto Chief ing of the approval... there simply wasn’t the opportunity more North Korean laborers, who help Kim’s govern- The researchers interviewed by Reuters - Jason Technology Officer Robert Fraley said, “We firmly believe to do the additional testing,” he said. Arkansas blocked ment by sending cash home. Trump’s UN ambassador, Norsworthy at the University of Arkansas, Kevin Bradley at that our product if applied according to the instructions Monsanto’s product because of the lack of extra volatility Nikki Haley, called it “the single largest economic sanc- the University of Missouri and Aaron Hager at the on the label will not move off target and damage anyone.” testing by universities, but approved BASF’s because it had tions package ever leveled against” North Korea. University of Illinois - said Monsanto provided samples of not limited such testing and the results were acceptable. Even if, in the best-case scenario, the sanctions hurt XtendiMax before it was approved by the EPA. However, States Approve Without More Testing Thirty-three other states - every other state where the North Korea’s economy and weaken its government, the samples came with contracts that explicitly forbade Companies can limit independent testing because the products were marketed - approved both products. questions remain over what to do next. Can North Korea volatility testing. “This is the first time I’m aware of any her- substances are proprietary. When samples are provided to After Arkansas blocked XtendiMax in December, crop be persuaded to give up its weapons of mass destruc- bicide ever brought to market for which there were strict researchers, lawyers hammer out contracts detailing how damage began to appear in the state anyway. tion, removing the threat to the United States and its guidelines on what you could and could not do,” testing will be conducted and results will be handled, but Investigators trying to determine the cause of the dam- allies, South Korea and Japan? If not, what new options Norsworthy said. rarely do agreements limit what the products can be test- age are considering a range of possibilities including does the United States have? Trump is only the latest US The researchers declined to provide Reuters a copy of ed for, according to researchers interviewed by Reuters. problems with or improper use of Engenia or illegal use president to choose sanctions instead of confronting the Monsanto contracts, saying they were not authorized For instance, BASF, which introduced its rival herbicide, of XtendiMax or earlier formulations. In July, the state the North militarily or offering diplomatic talks without to do so. Monsanto’s Vice President of Global Strategy, Engenia, around the same time, said it allowed several uni- banned all products containing dicamba. Some states nuclear concessions. Scott Partridge, said the company prevented the testing versity researchers to evaluate its “off-target impact and including Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee said they do because it was unnecessary. He said the company believed application parameters.” not seek the more data if products pass EPA scrutiny. China cautious the product was less volatile than a previous dicamba for- Norsworthy, of the University of Arkansas, confirmed “The EPA is the federal agency responsible for approv- Much rests on the willingness of China, the North’s mula that researchers found could be used safely. “To get he had been permitted by BASF to study Engenia for ing and registering pesticides for sale and use,” said traditionally ally and main trading partner. China oppos- meaningful data takes a long, long time,” he said. “This volatility and that the results showed less volatility than Missouri Department of Agriculture spokeswoman es Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons, and was uncharacter- product needed to get into the hands of growers.” previous dicamba formulations. BASF says its product is Sarah Alsager. “The Department does not perform field istically forthright in saying so this week. But it remains safe when properly applied. The EPA did not answer ques- testing or solicit local input.” Some states are now form- cautious of triggering a North Korean collapse, fearful of ‘Jeopardize the Federal Label’ tions about whether it noticed a lack of input from univer- ing task forces to determine what should be done fomenting chaos along its border or advancing any sce- Monsanto employee Boyd Carey, an agronomist, laid sity researchers about XtendiMax’s volatility or whether it about the damage. — Reuters nario that would lead to a reunified and US-allied Korea on its doorstep. In private diplomatic conversations, the US has been telling Beijing that the North’s weapons development will eventually spread instability in the region, an argu- Canada roughnecks seek green energy jobs ment that plays to China’s strong preference for policies that preserve long-term stability and the status quo. The fter nearly a decade of riding Canada’s oil boom, petroleum exporter to the United States and the world’s er, remains a larger employer than solar, despite recent job US has been arguing that an unfettered North Korea drilling contractor Jennifer Turner found herself low seventh largest producer, according to the US Energy losses, it said. could lead to an arms race in which Japan, South Korea Aon work, like thousands of other employees in the Information Administration. and even Vietnam could pursue their own nuclear fossil fuel business left jobless following a plunge in oil Partially due to its oil industry, Canada is one of the high- Pay Cut weapons, said a US official who briefed reporters travel- prices. Today, she helps unemployed oil workers find jobs est per-capita greenhouse gas emitters among the wealthy Workers transferring from oil jobs into renewable energy ing with Tillerson on condition of anonymity. in the burgeoning solar power industry. She hopes it’s part countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation are likely to take a significant “haircut” on their salaries There have been a half-dozen previous UN resolu- of a broader transition to adopt more renewable energy in and Development. Canada’s government has pledged to when making the switch, said Sandercock. But some still tions on North Korea since 2006, when the country the North American nation with the world’s third-largest oil improve its record on climate change by investing in renew- want to do it for environmental reasons, to avoid the boom- became the first and only one this century to conduct a reserves. “Workers risk getting left behind,” said Turner, a able energy, taxing carbon emissions and other policies. and-bust cycle common in the oil industry, or simply nuclear test explosion. Four further atomic tests since spokeswoman for the advocacy group Iron and Earth because they need a job, he added. John Archer, a then have honed its capability to miniaturize a nuclear based in western Alberta province, the heartland of ‘Tipping Point’ spokesman for Alberta’s government, said the province has device. Last month’s pair of groundbreaking tests of Canada’s oil sector. In Alberta, which produces about 80 percent of Canada’s programs to help unemployed oil workers. long-range ballistic missiles has put the continental In fact, many require “minimal training” to repurpose oil, renewable energy capacity is doubling roughly every “The biggest obstacle for workers who want to retrain is United States in range for the first time. While uncertain- their expertise for renewable energy projects, she told the two years, said Jim Sandercock, chair of the alternative identifying which of their skills are transferable to new job ty remains over the North’s ability to wed a warhead Thomson Reuters Foundation. Skills like welding, machin- energy technology program at the Northern Alberta opportunities and what new skills are needed,” Archer said. with such a missile and strike a US target, it is a prospect ery repair and project management can be transferred from Institute of Technology. Currently, renewable energy The government does not have statistics on how many ex- that looms large over Trump’s presidency. the oil industry to solar power installation or other renew- accounts for less than 10 percent of Alberta’s power, accord- oil workers have got green energy jobs since the price col- Amid all the pressure, his administration has left able enterprises if workers get the right support, said Turner ing to government figures. With unemployment in the lapse in 2014, he added. open the possibility of resuming talks with Pyongyang. who still occasionally contracts for oil companies. From the once-booming province at nearly 8 percent, largely due to In Manila, Tillerson said he hoped the North would sands of Saudi Arabia, to the Bakken shale formation in lay-offs in the oil sector as prices dropped, interest in green Fossil Fuel Subsidies “choose a different pathway and when the conditions North Dakota and Angola’s coastal waters, low oil prices, energy training has grown swiftly, Sandercock said. Provincial officials expect to attract more than $10.5 bil- are right, that we can sit and have a dialogue.” He urged concerns over climate change and the falling cost of clean “Solar and other renewable energy used to be expen- lion in renewable electricity investment by 2030, creating North Korea to first halt tests for an “extended period,” power are leading investors and governments to reconsider sive,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “Now they an estimated 7,200 jobs. “The Alberta government has com- however often such confidence-building measures energy policies. are amongst the cheapest forms of new electricity genera- mitted to increasing the amount of green energy pro- have failed. — AP Finding jobs for ex-oil workers is key to smoothing the tion... any new technology has to get past that initial hump.” duced,” Archer said, without providing details on targets for path towards renewable energy and building public sup- The institute will double the number of places on its renew- energy generation or new projects. Both Turner and port for that shift, officials and campaigners say. The Paris able energy program next year to 50, but demand is more Sandercock said the government could do more to create All articles appearing on these pages are the Agreement to tackle climate change, adopted in 2015 by than ten times that, the professor said. The employment clean energy jobs, including better tax incentives for com- personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait Times close to 200 governments, notes that countries will take rate for graduates is 93 percent. panies and individuals using green technologies. into account “the imperatives of a just transition of the “We are about to see a tipping point” as clean energy Canada supplied $3 billion annually in financial backing takes no responsibility for views expressed workforce” in their efforts to limit global warming. grows rapidly in the United States and developing nations, - including government subsidies - for oil, gas and coal therein. Kuwait Times invites readers to voice Sandercock predicted. “These are exciting times.” companies between 2013 and 2015, compared to $171 mil- their opinions. Please send submissions via High Emissions Employment in solar power in the United States jumped lion for clean energy, according to data released in July by a email to: [email protected] or via snail Since oil prices collapsed in 2014, Canada has lost more nearly 25 percent last year to more than 260,000 workers, coalition of environmental groups. Despite this financial mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. The editor than 40,000 jobs in oil, gas and related industries, showed according to a February study from The Solar Foundation, a backing for fossil fuels, drilling supervisor and campaigner reserves the right to edit any submission as data released last year by the Canadian Association of trade group. The US solar power industry now employs Turner believes the long-term outlook for renewables is necessary. Petroleum Producers, an industry group. Extracting about more people than coal, according to a 2017 report from the more optimistic than for oil. “We just need to avoid exclud- 3.6 million barrels of oil daily, Canada is the largest foreign US Department of Energy. The broader oil industry, howev- ing workers,” she said. — Reuters NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

Rolls of straw are photographed on a field on the outskirts of Frankfurt yesterday.— AP Lanka war widows Saudi forces raze Awamiya old quarter Continued from Page 1 showed security forces celebrating their progress by link- ing arms and dancing in a circle, their automatic weapons to prevent gunmen using the narrow streets to evade hoisted in the air. But the fight may not yet be over, and trafficked as slaves capture. Casualty figures have not been published, but the the campaign may sow further discontent among the ministry representative said eight members of a police rap- Shiite population which complains of discrimination, id reaction team and four special forces troops have been charges the kingdom’s authorities deny. JAFFNA: When Nathkulasinham Nesemalhar took a flight under-developed provinces in terms of gender parity. killed since the latest campaign began. Residents say nine Around ten bulldozers busily worked to demolish more from Colombo to Muscat in March she believed the board- Female workforce participation is 21 percent compared to civilians have been killed in the violence in the past week. buildings and scrape up the detritus of combat, and the ing pass she clutched in her hand was her golden ticket to a the national average of 35 percent, government data Residents estimate that up to 20,000 people have fled soldiers driving them still wore their helmets and body better life after decades of war where she lost everything, shows, while the maternal mortality rate is 30 percent or been evacuated to safer towns and villages nearby. An armor. The bright pink walls of a bedroom lay exposed on including her husband. The 54-year-old widow from Sri against 22 percent nationally. The United Nations estimates interior ministry representative said the old quarter had the first floor of a collapsed house. Lanka’s former war zone had been promised work as a maid more than a fifth of the 250,000 households in the north been empty except for “terrorists” for the past six months, A light brown-colored dog was seen wandering around, for an affluent family in the Gulf state of Oman. She would are headed by women like Nesemalhar - war widows who but the security forces had to wait until families left adja- an orange leash still dragging behind him. In place of Al- get a nice room, decent working hours and 30,000 rupees have become breadwinners. cent areas before they could begin their final push. The Musawara, authorities say they will build an attractive dis- ($150) a month - enough to pay off her debts. With no jobs and few opportunities to earn a livelihood, authorities say they compensated residents who have had trict of shopping centers, office buildings, green spaces But Nesemalhar’s dream soon turned into a nightmare. these women - many of whom look after up to four people to leave. Footage shared on social media yesterday and fountains. — Reuters She found herself enslaved with other women in a dimly-lit - are being forced to borrow from money lenders, leaving room with no ventilation, miles from Muscat. She was taken them open to exploitation by trafficking networks. “They Qatar announces visa-free entry... out daily, sent to different homes to clean, and then locked are the most vulnerable and easiest to convince to take up up again at night. “There were 15 of us. We never got paid. these offers,” said Ravindra De Silva, head of the charity Continued from Page 1 region, has an Emirati mother and a Qatari father. That is Finally we got back home when the Sri Lankan government Association for Friendship and Love, which worked with nothing unusual in a region where cross-border marriages intervened,” said the mother-of-three whose husband went authorities to rescue Nesemalhar. benefit of the emirate, a first for the Gulf. Under the new are commonplace. The diplomatic spat has thrown such missing in 2001. Recruitment agencies employ local villagers who are rules, children with a Qatari mother and a foreign father families into their own crises. “Half my family is in Dubai, in “People who have not gone through a conflict will not known and trusted in their communities and who scout for can benefit from the new status, along with foreign resi- the UAE. I also have family in Bahrain,” Sara said, choking understand how difficult it is to take care of young children indebted and impoverished women. They promise decent dents who have “given service to Qatar” or have “skills that back tears. on your own. We suffered during the war and we are suffer- jobs, generous salaries and paint an alluring picture of a can benefit the country”. Those deemed eligible for the When her grandmother fell ill in Dubai, her mother was ing now,” she said at her home in Jaffna in Sri Lanka’s good life in a wealthy nation. All the women have to do is new status will be afforded the same access as Qataris to reluctant to travel to the UAE for fear she would not be Northern Province. The abuse of Asian and African maids in sign a basic contract and fill in some paperwork - but they free public services, such as health and education. Qatar allowed to return to her children in Qatar. States in the Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, are often unaware of any terms and conditions. This has a population of 2.4 million people, 90 percent of whom Saudi-led bloc have demanded that their citizens leave Bahrain and Oman is commonly reported. amounts to a contract of bonded labor, where the recruit- are foreigners, including many from south Asia working in Qatar, but many have hesitated to do so - especially those But Nesemalhar’s story highlights a rising yet unac- ment agencies - which are government registered - dupe construction. with families in the tiny gas-rich emirate. Some say they knowledged trend in the Indian Ocean island where a lack victims into believing no fees need to be paid, said Da Silva. For Qataris affected by the diplomatic crisis rocking the fear punishment by their own governments. of opportunities for thousands of war widows is making The agency that sent Nesemalhar to Oman, for example, Gulf, the reality of politics is stark: families divided, assets One Saudi mother, who has been based in Qatar for them easy prey for traffickers who sell them as slaves over- refused to repatriate her saying the employer paid 300,000 frozen and dreams put on hold. Sara, a 29-year-old Qatari, years and asked to remain anonymous, said she was terri- seas. According to the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign rupees ($1,955) for her and she must refund that in order to had been poised to start her senior year in business school fied. She and her two adult daughters are caught between Employment, over 1,000 women from the north - many be allowed to return home. Nesemalhar was luckier than in Dubai when on June 5, a bloc of Arab states led by Saudi fear of their own government and uncertainty about their from female headed homes - sought jobs as maids in Gulf most. After being held for several weeks, she was rescued Arabia abruptly cut ties with her country. “We were sud- future in Qatar. “We feel trapped,” she told AFP by phone. nations in 2015 and 2016. Central Bank data shows only 300 when the Sri Lankan authorities found out about her plight denly told that we were no longer permitted to attend “We will have to renew our visas in a year. It’s frightening - went in 2011. “The numbers are insignificant compared to through the relative of another women enslaved with her. classes and had to go back to Doha,” she said. we don’t know what will happen.” the over 100,000 Sri Lankan women who leave annually as But many victims are not rescued or cannot pay the money Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and She said she does not want to go back to Saudi Arabia, domestic workers,” said S Senthurajah, executive director of to return home and can be exploited and abused for years. Bahrain accused the Gulf emirate of supporting Islamist but fears that if she does not she will be blocked from Social Organizations Networking for Development, a Jaffna- In most cases, there is no prosecution of the recruitment extremism and being too close to Riyadh’s regional arch- accessing her late husband’s Saudi pension, her only based charity. “But given that hardly anyone from the north agents or employers. rival Iran. They ordered all Qataris to leave their territories source of income. Her daughters, who work in Qatar, also left as domestic workers a few years back, it is an important Only a handful of cases have make headlines. In 2013, a within two weeks, recalled their ambassadors and citizens want to stay. One has started losing her hair because of number. It’s because they cannot make ends meet.” Sri Lankan maid was beheaded in Saudi Arabia, accused of from the emirate and banned Qatari carriers from their stress over the issue. All three declined to meet AFP jour- negligence after a child in her care died. In 2010, doctors ports and airspace. Qatar denied the allegations and nalists in person for fear of the consequences. 90,000 War Widows found a 50-year-old woman rescued from Saudi Arabia had denounced what it called a “blockade” aimed at bringing Other Qataris, interviewed at a center in Doha set up to Sri Lanka is in its eighth year of peace after a 26-year been burned with a hot iron and had pieces of metal the wealthy emirate to its knees. support those affected by the crisis, fear for their assets in conflict which ended with the defeat of the separatist Tamil embedded into her skin. Activists say that while reports of Qatari authorities have committed schools and universi- other countries. Nour, who declined to be named in full, Tigers in 2009. More than 100,000 died, around 65,000 physical and mental abuse are common, women are reluc- ties to enrolling repatriated students. But for Sara and owns apartments in Dubai but can no longer access them. remain missing and millions were uprooted from their tant to speak about sexual abuse and rape, fearing shame many like her, the crisis was personal. “When someone pre- Ahmad and Abdullah own camels worth a fortune, but homes during the violence, concentrated mainly in the and stigma. Officials say they cannot cancel the registration vents you from studying, it destroys your dreams,” she said. they are in Saudi Arabia where they are traditionally sent island’s ethnic Tamil majority Eastern and Northern of recruitment firms and prosecute traffickers or foreign “One day, overnight, with no warning - suddenly you’re to graze. Many Qataris are in a state of shock. Qatari civil Provinces. Yet despite the government pumping billions of employers as victims do not come forward - often too poor told ‘you have to stay home, no school for you’.” As the servant Ahmad said political issues “should stay between dollars into infrastructure development in the north, little and too traumatized to pursue legal action. The Sri Lankan standoff drags into its third month, the uncertainty is caus- leaders, people should not be involved”. Abdullah Al-Marri, has been done for the estimated 90,000 women who lost authorities say most women go through registered recruit- ing agony, particularly for families of mixed nationality. another government worker, said he was surprised at the their husbands, fathers and brothers during the conflict, say ment agencies and complete a 40-day housekeeping Sara, who did not want her surname revealed because she turn of events. “I didn’t think such things could happen activists. The Northern Province is one of the country’s most course before their departure. — Reuters feared the consequences for her relatives elsewhere in the between brothers,” he said. — AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 SPORTS

Ex-Spurs striker Soldado Real Betis clinch deal Souare close to return to join Fenerbahce: Club for Algerian Boudebouz to training after car crash

ISTANBUL: Former Tottenham Hotspur striker Roberto Soldado is set to join MONTPELLIER: Spanish side Real Betis have signed Algerian inter- LONDON: Crystal Palace’s Senegalese left-back Pape Souare has returned Turkish Super Lig side Fenerbahce after two seasons at Villarreal in his native Spain, national attacking midfielder Ryad Boudebouz from Ligue 1 outfit to full training after sustaining serious injuries in a car crash 11 months the Istanbul club said yesterday. An agreement with Spain international Soldado Montpellier, the French club announced yesterday. The 27-year-old ago, his club revealed yesterday. Souare, 27, had to be airlifted to hospi- has been reached in principle, Fenerbahce said. The player will arrive in Istanbul lat- has penned a four-year deal with the Seville-based team, who paid tal with a broken leg and jaw after the accident on the M4 motorway in er Wednesday to finalise the deal. After stints at Spanish sides including Montpellier seven million euros ($8.22m) for his services. London in September 2016. Having undergone a lengthy period of reha- Real Madrid and Valencia, Soldado joined Tottenham in 2013, staying Boudebouz, who previously played for Sochaux and Bastia, scored bilitation, he was shown going through fitness drills and ball work in a with the English Premiership side for two seasons. He joined Villarreal 11 goals and made nine assists in the French top flight last season. video posted on Twitter by Palace. “I heard you were looking for in 2015 but much of last season was blighted by a knee injury. He has 24 international caps, having made his Algeria debut in me. Feeling blessed to come back for my first training session Fenerbahce are looking to reinforce their side after finishing well 2010. Real Betis finished 15th in La Liga last term, but new head with the 1st team,” Souare wrote on Twitter. “I want to say behind champions Besiktas and surprise runners-up Basaksehir coach Quique Setien has bolstered his squad significantly since tak- Thank You to all of you for your love and support on this jour- Istanbul in the Turkish Super Lig last season, thus missing out on a ing over in May after a successful spell in charge of Las Palmas. ney! I read every msg and I hope to make u all happy soon.” Champions League place. Other signings for Fenerbahce in the close Boudebouz is Setien’s eighth signing of the close season, joining Senegal international Souare joined Palace from Lille in season have included Moroccan international defender Nabil Dirar, the likes of former Barcelona winger Cristian Tello, midfielders Victor January 2015 and has made 46 league appearances for the French attacking midfielder Mathieu Valbuena and Chilean Camarasa and Andres Guardado, as well as former Swansea City club. Palace begin their Premier League season at home to international defender Mauricio Isla. —AFP defender Jordi Amat, in moving to the Benito Villamarin. —AFP promoted Huddersfield Town on Saturday. —AFP Mickelson and Els reach milestone in 100th major

CHARLOTTE: On the monitor below them met. I think we played 18 holes together was a photo from the first time they met. there that time, and I would never have The 14-year-old South African with an easy thought that we’d be playing basically for smile was holding the winner’s trophy from life.” Mickelson remembers it well, specifi- the 1984 Junior World Championship. Next cally a shot Els hit in the final round when to him was the golden boy from San Diego, he was 20 yards short of the green on a par slightly taller at the time, holding his tro- 5. “You hit this little skipping, spinning phy as the runner-up. wedge shot that checked up about a foot Ernie Els and Phil Mickelson are still from the hole, and that’s when I knew you going at it, rarely rivals, always friends. The were going to be a good player because I next time playing together, this week at the had not seen anybody else at 14 hit that PGA Championship, marks a special occa- shot,” he said. “It’s amazing that we’ve sion for both. Three decades later, Els and played together and against each other for Mickelson join an elite club by competing so many years. It doesn’t seem that long in their 100th major championship. Els won ago from those days.” his first one in 1994 at the US Open at And then he looked at the photo and Oakmont. Two-time US Open champion said, “But it sure looks like a long time ago.” Curtis Strange was quoted as calling Els the Their daughters were born a month apart, “next god.” Only later did the media realize and now Els and Mickelson are sending that what Strange had actually said was them off to college this year. Samantha Els that Els would be the “next guy.” It just was accepted to Stanford. Amanda sounded the other way because of his thick Mickelson is headed to Brown. Virginia accent. They are linked mostly through compe- Mickelson didn’t win his first major until tition, win or lose. “Phil has had a great he was 34, at the Masters, and it came at time, winning five. I’ve won four,” Els said. the expense of Els. Mickelson holed an 18- “But we’ve been in the hunt many, many foot birdie putt on the final hole. Els, on the other times and it didn’t quite come off. But putting green hopeful of a playoff, heard it’s a hell of a thrill. It’s what we play for, the ground-shaking roar, picked up his golf what we practice four. And you want to pull balls and walked off. He never won a green off great shots in the bigger stage.” jacket. The PGA of America brought them They also had to settle for being second together Tuesday for an interview and a fiddle in the generation that was Tiger celebration, complete with a cake. They Woods. Els was runner-up seven times to become the 13th and 14th players to reach Woods worldwide, including back-to-back 100 majors, a list that starts with Jack majors in 2000. Mickelson lost out to Nicklaus and his 164. He is followed by Woods in the final group of the 2001 Gary Player, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer, Masters, and he was runner-up to him at Raymond Floyd, Sam Snead, Ben Crenshaw, the US Open the following year. Gene Sarazen, Tom Kite, Mark O’Meara, How different could it have been with CHARLOTTE: Dustin Johnson watches his tee shot on the 16th hole during a practice round at the PGA Championship golf tournament at the Bernhard Langer and Nick Faldo, who Woods? Both say they would not have Quail Hollow Club Tuesday, in Charlotte. — AP played his 100th and final major at St. been the players they became. Woods was Andrews in the British Open two years ago. as tough a rival as anyone would face, All of them are in the Hall of Fame, Els though Els and Mickelson say they relished GOLF and Mickelson included. The PGA of the challenge. “I feel as though had Tiger America had photos from the first major not come around, I don’t feel I would have they played (Els at the 1989 British Open, pushed myself to achieve what I ended up Top-ranked Johnson back on Mickelson at the 1990 US Open); the victo- achieving, because he forced everybody to ries in the majors (five for Mickelson, four get the best out of themselves,” Mickelson for Els); and yes, that 1984 Junior World. “Do said. “He forced everybody to work a little form after Masters mishap you see how grumpy Phil looks there,” Els bit harder. He forced everybody to look at said with a chuckle. “It was quite a while fitness as a big part of the game of golf, ago, I can tell you. We had a great time. It and I think that’s actually helped me with CHARLOTTE: Top-ranked Dustin Johnson was my first time ever to the United States longevity. ... So I don’t think I would have says he feels almost as good at the PGA and what a place to go play golf at in San had the same level of success had he not Championship as he did the last time he Diego. I guess that was the first time we come around.”—AP Kuwaiti shooters power to showed up at a major one hour’s drive from his hometown. And maybe this time he’ll actually get to victory in Asian tourney Nothing to prove, says McIlroy as play. The 2016 US Open winner is playing this week at Quail Hollow, north of his hometown KUWAIT: Kuwait clinched first place yester- Meanwhile, Kuwaiti shooters returned to he tries to end major drought of Columbia, South Carolina. The same dis- day in the team competition of the Seventh the crowning stage on Tuesday under the tance to the south is Augusta, Georgia, where Asian Shotgun Championship held in Kuwaiti flag after the ban was lifted. CHARLOTTE: Rory McIlroy says he has to victory while world number one, saying Johnson was a huge favorite in April until a Kazakhstan. Trap shooter Abdelrahman Al-Faihan nothing to prove this week as he chases his he needed to show how well he could play. fall on the eve of the Masters forced him to Abdulrahman Al-Faihan and Sara Al- won the individual gold medal, followed by first major title in three years on a Quail “I definitely don’t want to be in the withdraw with a back injury. Hawal led their team to victory, as South his teammate Talal Abdallah Al-Rashidi, who Hollow layout where he has two wins and mind-set this week of wanting to make any “I was playing as good as I’ve ever played Korea and India trailed in second and third won silver. the course record. The world number four type of statement or go out and prove will be a favorite when the 99th PGA myself. I’m past that point,” McIlroy said. and consistently every day,” Johnson said. “I place, respectively, Duaij Al-Otaibi, head of The team of Abdelrahman Al-Faihan, Championship tees off today even though “I’ve proven myself enough over the last was as good as I ever felt and confidence the Kuwait and Arab Shooting Sports Talal Al-Rashidi and Khalid Al-Mudhaf won the 28-year-old from Northern Ireland nine years of my career. probably as high as it has ever been. “But Federations went on to dedicate this mon- the first place with 350 points, Lebanon hasn’t won since last September’s US PGA “Obviously I wouldn’t have won as much things happen. Just when you feel like you umental victory to HH the Amir, HH the took the second spot with 336 points and Tour Championship. as I would have liked this year, and there’s get on top, something happens that knocks Crown Prince, government and Kuwaiti UAE with 331 points. “I’m not putting that much pressure on been a few components to that, injury- you down. But I’m fighting back and I feel like people. He told Kuna via telephone that 350 Honorary President of Asian Shooting myself. I don’t feel like I need to prove any- wise, changing equipment and stuff. It has the game is as good as it was before then. competitors representing 29 nations partici- Federation Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem thing to anyone,” McIlroy said Tuesday. “I been a bit of a transitional year. But I feel “It has finally coming back into form. I felt pated in the tournament which is being in Al-Humoud Al-Sabah attended the award- never lost faith. I’ve always believed in my like everything has settled. I just want to go like I got some things worked out in the swing Kazakh capital. ing ceremony. —KUNA own abilities. I still do.” It was a contrast out and play my game and hopefully that that were just holding me back a little bit. My from how four-time major winner McIlroy will be good enough.” body feels great. I’m looking for a really good felt in 2015, when he fired a third-round 71 McIlroy, the 2012 and 2014 PGA week this week.” to break his own course record on the way Championship winner who also took the Johnson, 33, had won three events in a row 2011 US Open and 2014 British Open, going into the Masters, becoming world num- could become only the third player to win ber one after taking Riviera and adding World five majors before turning 30, joining Jack Golf Championships Mexico and Match Play Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. titles. Then came his stumble down a small set of stairs at a rental home in Augusta. His trip NO BEST, NO PROBLEM to the driving range before his late tee time It won’t hurt that he has played well in turned into a reality television drama that majors in wet conditions, which are expect- ed this week, and that he has a comfort ended with him walking to the tee, shaking zone with Quail Hollow despite changes to hands with his scheduled playing partners toughen the opening third of the course. and then walking away. “You don’t really have to have your best “I think I knew before I even went,” said game and you still feel like you have a Johnson of his Augusta practice swings. “I was chance to win-that’s sort of how it feels just trying my hardest because I wanted to here,” McIlroy said. “For the most part, 15 of play so badly.” “It is frustrating what happened the 18 holes are the same. I just feel good when I was playing so well, but there’s noth- around here. I don’t know what it is. I’ve got ing I can do about that. Things happen, and some great memories. Once you go back to so now I’ve just got to fight and practice and a place where you have great memories, all work hard to get back to where I was. I’m driv- that starts to come flooding back to you ing it really well again.” and it makes you feel good about yourself. Asked for a number grade, Johnson said he That’s sort of how I feel around here.” was a 3 when he returned in May. “It wasn’t McIlroy admits he has been looking for- that good, but then it went down and got ward to this major since it was announced. worse after that,” Johnson said. “But I feel like “This has been a week I’ve been looking I’m about an 8 1/2 right now. forward to for a long time,” he said. “I’m “I’m going to continue to work hard on it glad I’m showing up for this week feeling and hopefully we’re going to have a good like my game is in good shape as well.” week. I’ll be there on Sunday.” Johnson has A poor start doomed his fightback bid at the British Open, but he still shared battled back before, overcoming the fourth at Royal Birkdale and followed by heartache of a penalty for grounding his club sharing fifth at last week’s WGC in an ill-marked sand hazard that cost him the Bridgestone in Akron. “My form is better 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits CHARLOTTE: Rory McIlroy of Northern coming into this event than it was going to win a major last year. Ireland, chips to the 18th green during a into the Open,” McIlroy said. “I’m coming He says he isn’t owed a PGA Championship. practice round at the PGA Championship off the back of a couple of top-5s. Things “I don’t think it owes me one,” he said. “It was golf tournament at the Quail Hollow are a bit different than they were a couple my fault. I grounded a club in what they still Club Tuesday, in Charlotte. — AP of weeks ago.”—AFP say is a bunker.” —AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 SPORTS

NFL James ready to take over as Steelers’ top tight end

LATROBE: Jesse James has prepared the the Steelers really gave me a chance to my game’s at and what I need to do to be “They must’ve liked what they saw in and create space for All-Pro running back last two offseasons to be the starting come into that role, and now that’s the ready for the season.” those 10 games we didn’t have Ladarius. Le’Veon Bell. tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers even expectation, so that’s what I’m going to Green, who signed a four-year, $20 We have a young group, so they know The plan helped carry the Steelers to as the team explored its options follow- do.” While Green struggled to stay million contract in free agency, was what to expect from us and they know the AFC Championship game. Pittsburgh ing Heath Miller’s unexpected retirement healthy in his only season in Pittsburgh, placed on the physically unable to per- we’re going to grow.” reeled off nine straight wins and aver- in 2015. Pittsburgh splurged in free James flourished. He appeared in all 19 form list in training camp and didn’t James played high school football at aged 144 rushing yards per game, up agency a year ago, signing Ladarius games last season for the AFC North appear in a game until November, the nearby South Allegheny and starred in from an average of 82 yards for the first Green to a four-year deal. It lasted only champions, finishing with 39 receptions 10th week of the regular season against college at Penn State. He grew up watch- 10 games. Expect to see more of the one. When the Steelers released Green in for 338 yards and three touchdowns. Dallas. He played in five games before a ing Miller and the Steelers. James, a fifth- same in 2017 from James and the the spring, James found himself in the Heady territory for a kid who grew up in season-ending concussion in week 14. round draft pick in 2015, spent a year Steelers’ tight ends. “I see Jesse getting spot he believed he could be in all along: suburban Pittsburgh. Yet he hardly thinks The Steelers released Green after he under Miller’s tutelage and now he leads better each year because that’s the type a starter on one of the NFL’s most potent he’s arrived. “I’ll have to step it up and be failed his physical in May. a group that includes evolving pass- of player he is,” Grimble said. offenses. more reliable and more prepared to help The team didn’t draft or sign another catcher Xavier Grimble and veteran “He’s always working hard and he’s “I knew I had a chance to be the guy the team in every situation,” James said. “I tight end, allowing James to take over blocking specialist David Johnson. The really good with the offense, especially last year. Things didn’t work out for feel great and obviously I’m in a better the starting role. “It shows a lot that the Steelers added offensive lineman Chris with another year under his belt. I would Ladarius early in the season, so I had that position than I was last year, mentally coaching staff didn’t go out and get Hubbard to the tight end group last sea- expect nothing less than a breakout sea- opportunity,” James said. “This summer, and physically. I feel better about where somebody in free agency,” James said. son in an effort to boost the run game son from him.” — AP

SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco Giants’ Brandon Crawford, bottom, scores past Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras during the fourth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Tuesday. — AP

BASEBALL Lamb’s slam gives D-backs 6-3 win over Dodgers

PHOENIX: Jake Lamb hit his second career INDIANS 4, ROCKIES 1 homer of the season and drove in three Drew Robinson on a groundout for his 21st right field in the fifth inning, Herrera reached grand slam in the seventh inning and the Yan Gomes hit a three-run homer off runs. Stanton crushed a first-pitch fastball save. Texas’ A.J. Griffin (5-3) allowed four runs down to pull a low pitch from Julio Teheran Arizona Diamondbacks rallied to beat Los Greg Holland with two outs in the ninth from A.J. Cole (1-2) deep into the center- and four hits in five innings. (7-10) into the restaurant behind the right- Angeles 6-3 on Tuesday night, handing the inning, lifting Corey Kluber and Cleveland to field stands in the fifth for a 4-1 lead follow- field wall. Freddie Freeman hit a first-inning major league-leading Dodgers their eighth the victory. After Austin Jackson tied it with ing singles by Miguel Rojas and Dee PADRES 7, REDS 3 homer off Eflin, who was recalled from loss in the last 52 games. Lamb, who also a two-out bloop RBI single, Gomes connect- Gordon. Derek Dietrich also homered and Jose Pirela had four hits and Yangervis Triple-A Lehigh Valley before the game and connected for a solo homer in the sixth, ed on the first pitch from Holland (2-3), driv- drove in three runs for the Marlins. Gordon’s Solarte had a homer among his three hits, earned his first win of the season. Eflin (1-3) was hitting .143 against left-handers this ing it into the seats in center field to touch RBI double and Dietrich’s two-run single put powering the Padres to the victory. San allowed two runs and seven hits. The Phillies season when he drove Tony Watson’s 1-2 off a wild celebration in Progressive Field. Miami up 7-1 in the seventh. Vance Worley Diego’s Luis Perdomo (6-6) escaped threats have won 10 of 12 against Atlanta this sea- pitch off the right-field foul pole to put Gomes flung his helmet and skipped (2-2) beat the Nationals for the second time by inducing three ground-ball double plays son. Hector Neris pitched a perfect ninth for Arizona up 6-3. Justin Turner homered around the bases as the Indians players in nine days. He allowed one run in six his specialty - while pitching into the sev- his 12th save in 15 chances. twice for the Dodgers, who led 3-2 enter- danced out of their dugout at the improba- innings after holding Washington to two enth. Cincinnati catcher Tucker Barnhart hit ing the bottom of the seventh. Watson (5- ble walk-off win. Kluber (10-3) struck out 11 hits while pitching seven innings in Miami’s a three-run homer off Jose Torres. The Padres ANGELS 3, ORIOLES 2 4) was charged with the loss. David in his second straight complete game. He 7-0 win on July 31. improved to 4-1 against the Reds, who Parker Bridwell, a right-hander the Angels Hernandez (2-0) got one out for the win allowed three hits and walked none. Charlie haven’t won a season series from them since picked up simply for cash in mid-April from and Fernando Rodney worked the ninth for Blackmon homered for the Rockies. CARDINALS 10, ROYALS 3 2012. The Reds have gone 7-18 since the All- the Orioles, came back to haunt his former his 26th save in 31 tries. Yadier Molina, Jedd Gyorko and Randal Star break. San Diego piled up nine hits and team in a victory for Los Angeles over BLUE JAYS 4, YANKEES 2 Grichuk homered, leading St. Louis to its five runs off Sal Romano (2-4), who was in Baltimore. Bridwell (6-1) went seven strong RED SOX 2, RAYS 0 Josh Donaldson hit two two-run homers fourth straight win. Michael Wacha (9-4) trouble in each of his six innings. Austin innings, holding the Orioles to one run and Chris Sale struck out 13 in eight innings, for the Blue Jays, and J.A. Happ won his allowed a three-run double to Cheslor Hedges homered for a 5-0 lead in the sixth. six hits. He struck out four and did not walk a and the Red Sox earned their seventh sixth straight decision against the Yankees. Cuthbert but otherwise kept the Royals in Solarte connected for a two-run shot an batter. The Angels are 10-1 this season in straight victory. Sale (14-4) reached double Donaldson connected twice against CC check, surrendering six hits over six innings inning later. games started by Bridwell. Jeremy Hellickson digits in strikeouts for the 15th time this Sabathia (9-5), who came in with an AL-best to win for the sixth time in seven decisions. (7-6) was matching Bridwell until running into season. He allowed two hits, and Craig 2.29 ERA in 10 road starts. The 2015 AL MVP Molina connected against Jason Vargas (13- TWINS 11, BREWERS 4 trouble in the seventh. He had retired 10 Kimbrel struck out the side in the ninth for hit a drive to right-center in the first, and 6) in the fourth and Grichuk and Gyorko con- Brian Dozier hit his first career grand slam straight in the 1-1 game when the Angels his 28th save. The win pushed Boston’s AL hooked one down the left field line in the nected to highlight the six-run fifth, when and Max Kepler and Eddie Rosario each chased him with four consecutive hits. East lead over the New York Yankees to four third. It was Donaldson’s 12th multihomer the crown-shaped videoboard at Kauffman homered twice, powering Minnesota to a games. Dustin Pedroia, who returned to the game and his second this season, both Stadium suddenly went dark. About half of it two-game sweep of Milwaukee. Matt Garza MARINERS 7, ATHLETICS 6 lineup as the designated hitter after a stint coming against the Yankees. Happ (5-8) came back online in the seventh, when the (5-6) turned in his shortest and worst start of Leonys Martin homered in the top of the on the disabled list with left knee inflamma- allowed one run and four hits in 5 2/3 Cardinals were tacking on runs. the season with eight hits and eight runs 10th inning as the Mariners rallied from a tion, scored Boston’s first run on a fielder’s innings, improving to 6-0 in 10 starts allowed in 3 1/3 innings for the Brewers, who four-run deficit to defeat the Athletics. choice in the fourth. A bad throw by Austin against the Yankees since 2014. Roberto WHITE SOX 8, ASTROS 5 fell to 4-11 in their last 15 road games. Twins Martin hit a high arcing shot to right off a 2- Pruitt (6-3) prevented a possible inning- Osuna got three outs for his 29th save in 36 Rookie Kevan Smith homered and drove in starter Adalberto Mejia was pulled with one 1 94 mph fastball from Josh Smith (2-0) with ending double play on Rafael Devers’ chop- chances. four runs, and the last-place White Sox out in the fourth inning with pain in his two outs. His second home run of the sea- per to the mound. It was the only run stopped a six-game losing streak. Left-hander upper left arm, after allowing seven hits and son pushed the Mariners’ record on their allowed by Pruitt in his fourth major league MARLINS 7, NATIONALS 3 Derek Holland (6-11) earned his first win since three runs. Tyler Duffey (1-3) relieved with nine-game road trip to 5-3. Tony Zynch start. He pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings in a Miami slugger Giancarlo Stanton hit his June 13, despite issuing seven walks in 5 2/3 two innings for his first victory of the season, pitched out of a jam in the bottom of the win at Houston last Wednesday. career-high and major league leading 38th innings. He had been 0-5 in eight starts and and Dillon Gee struck out five over four 10th for his second save. Marc Rzepczynski one relief appearance since beating Baltimore. scoreless innings for his first career save. (2-0) pitched a scoreless inning in the bot- Dallas Keuchel (9-2) allowed a season-high tom of the ninth. The A’s had runners at first MLB Results/Standings eight runs and 10 hits in four innings for AL- PIRATES 6, TIGERS 3 and second with one out but Zynch struck leading Houston. He had a 1.67 ERA when he Andrew McCutchen hit his 23rd homer, out Chad Pinder swinging and got Matt San Francisco 6, Chicago Cubs 3; LA Angels 3, Baltimore 2; Seattle 7, Oakland 6 (10 innings); Arizona 6, LA went on the disabled list for the second time leading Pittsburgh to its fifth win in six Chapman to fly out to right. Dodgers 3; St. Louis 10, Kansas City 3; Chicago White Sox 8, Houston 5; Minnesota 11, Milwaukee 4; Philadelphia with a neck injury, on June 8. The All-Star left- games. Pirates right-hander Chad Kuhl (5-7) 5, Atlanta 2; Boston 2, Tampa Bay 0; Cleveland 4, Colorado 1; San Diego 7, Cincinnati 3; NY Mets 5, Texas 4; hander has a 10.50 ERA in three starts since his allowed three runs and five hits in six innings GIANTS 6, CUBS 3 Toronto 4, NY Yankees 2; Pittsburgh 6, Detroit 3; Miami 7, Washington 3. return. Tyler Clippard pitched the ninth for his in his second straight win. He also picked up Buster Posey hit a three-run homer in the American League National League second save. the first two RBIs of his big league career on first that was upheld after review and later Eastern Division Eastern Division a two-run single in the fourth off Matthew stole a base, Ty Blach won his second straight W L PCT GB Washington 66 45 .595 - METS 5, RANGERS 4 Boyd (5-6). McCutchen took Boyd to the start and the Giants beat the Cubs. Replay Boston 64 49 .566 - Miami 53 58 .477 13 Rookie Chris Flexen got his first big seats in center field leading off the fourth for showed Posey’s drive to left-center had just NY Yankees 59 52 .532 4 Atlanta 51 60 .459 15 Tampa Bay 58 56 .509 6.5 NY Mets 50 60 .455 15.5 league win and hit, and the Mets stopped a his franchise-record 13th interleague home enough to clear the wall and left fielder Jon Baltimore 56 57 .496 8 Philadelphia 41 69 .373 24.5 four-game losing streak. Michael Conforto, run. David Freese added two hits for the Jay’s outstretched glove before being caught Toronto 53 59 .473 10.5 Central Division Yoenis Cespedes and Travis d’Arnaud home- Pirates, and Felipe Rivero worked a perfect by a fan. Blach (8-7) hit an RBI single to help Central Division Chicago Cubs 59 53 .527 - red for New York, which led 4-0 after two ninth for his 10th save. Detroit has dropped his cause and the Giants snapped a four- Cleveland 60 50 .545 - Milwaukee 59 56 .513 1.5 innings. Cespedes went deep at Citi Field for four in a row. game losing streak to the Cubs with just their Kansas City 57 55 .509 4 St. Louis 57 56 .504 2.5 Minnesota 55 56 .495 5.5 just the third time this season, his first since third win in the last 10 against Chicago, Pittsburgh 56 57 .496 3.5 Detroit 51 61 .455 10 June 17. D’Arnaud hit his first at home this PHILLIES 5, BRAVES 2 which rallied to win Game 4 of the NL Chicago White Sox 42 68 .382 18 Cincinnati 46 67 .407 13.5 year after nine on the road. Joey Gallo, Odubel Herrera hit a two-run homer, Division Series and eliminate the Giants last Western Division Western Division Adrian Beltre and Robinson Chirinos home- Zach Eflin pitched seven strong innings fol- October on the way to a World Series title. Houston 71 41 .634 - LA Dodgers 79 33 .705 - red for Texas. Flexen (1-1) allowed three runs lowing his recall from the minors, and the Blach also beat the Cubs again after a May 22 Arizona 64 48 .571 15 Seattle 58 56 .509 14 and four hits in 5 2/3 innings in his third big Phillies continued their season-long mastery win at Wrigley Field, allowing two runs on LA Angels 56 58 .491 16 Colorado 64 49 .566 15.5 Texas 53 59 .473 18 San Diego 50 62 .446 29 league start. A.J. Ramos gave up Chirinos’ of the Braves. After Maikel Franco drove in seven hits in seven innings Tuesday with Oakland 50 63 .442 21.5 San Francisco 45 70 .391 35.5 two-out homer in the ninth, then retired Freddie Galvis with a line-drive single to three strikeouts and a walk. — AP THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 SPORTS Ranatunga urges ICC to probe Sri Lanka chief

COLOMBO: Former skipper Arjuna office at SLC, as well as at the Asian Cricket Ranatunga has blamed Sri Lanka’s string of Council and ICC. “I deny any involvement humiliating defeats on the country’s cricket personally, directly or indirectly with gam- chief and demanded his investigation by ing business,” Sumathipala told AFP. the International Cricket Council. In what could be the opening shots of a new bid to ‘THEY MESSED UP EVERYTHING’ head Sri Lanka Cricket, Ranatunga, 53, told He also slammed Ranatunga, Sri Lanka’s AFP there was no “proper discipline” in the minister of petroleum, for accusing President national team which has had a horror run Maithripala Sirisena’s government of failing of results. to protect the game. “If he wants to criticise The team lost by an innings and 53 runs the government, he must first resign,” in the second Test against India on Sunday, Sumathipala, said adding that allegations are after being crushed in the first match by frequently made against the board when the 304 runs. They are now fighting to avoid a national team performs badly. whitewash in the three-Test series. Sri “Every time the game is affected at the Lanka also suffered an early exit from the middle, Sri Lanka cricketers are not per- Champions Trophy, and lost a one-day forming to the expectation, we hear this series at home to bottom ranked kind of noise coming from the same quar- Zimbabwe last month. Ranatunga accused ter,” Sumathipala said. Sri Lanka Cricket president Thilanga He added that Ranatunga was hoping to Sumathipala, 52, of being involved in gam- oust him as Sri Lanka’s cricket chief, a posi- ing-a claim Sumathipala denies-and said he tion he tried and failed to secure in elections should not be allowed to hold office. in January 2016. “The same man “There is no proper discipline in the (Ranatunga) is continuously making every team... (but) no point in blaming the crick- effort undemocratically, unethically to hold eters when they get involved in all these office of Sri Lanka Cricket, even when he has gambling things. First they have to get the been democratically defeated more than officials in order,” Ranatunga told AFP. once,” Sumathipala said. Ranatunga and his There have been reports of attempts to younger brother Nishantha stood against approach Sri Lankan players for alleged Sumathipala at last year’s board elections match-fixing. and lost. The next elections are due in five Several officials, umpires and players months. Since retiring from the game, Syrian high jumper Majd Eddin Ghazal have been suspended or fined for involve- Ranatunga has entered politics and he was ment in match-fixing or refusing to cooper- an unelected cricket administrator in 2008. ate with investigations. Ranatunga said the Authorities have not responded to his ATHLETICS International Cricket Council should investi- demand that an interim committee run Sri gate Sumathipala over alleged gambling Lankan Cricket. “I thought OK, if the gov- links and the conduct of the Sri Lankan ernment thinks this is right-and I am part of board. “I want to know if the ICC has a back- this government-I tried to take a step back bone to check if these people (Sri Lanka and allowed them (the board) to run. They Syrian Ghazal leaps Cricket management) are in compliance have messed up everything,” Ranatunga with ethics standards,” Ranatunga told AFP. said. Last month Ranatunga also demand- There was no immediate comment from ed an investigation into the country’s 2011 the ICC. But Sumathipala denied the allega- World Cup final defeat by India, which was tion and accused Ranatunga of a smear accompanied by allegations of match-fix- over admin barriers campaign in a bid to take over the board. ing. Sports minister Dayasiri Jayasekera Sumathipala said Sri Lanka’s sports ministry said he was willing to order a probe if there and the ICC had both cleared him to hold was a written complaint.—AFP LONDON: Veteran Syrian high jumper Majd Eddin Ghazal said, adding that the overall standard of tathlon gold in 1995 and bronze in 1999. Ghazal will gladly put administrative hassles to jumping had dipped in 2017. “I expect surprises Ghazal, whose first name Majd means “glory”, one side as he bids for a third-ever world medal this year,” he warned. Syria has two medals in the is backing himself to add a third for a country CRICKET for his war-torn country. Ghazal has been a regu- world champs, Ghada Shouaa having won hep- caught in the crosshairs of a bloody crisis. — AFP lar on the global circuit, appearing in the last four world champs and three Olympics, his seventh- Sethi elected chairman placed finish in Rio last summer his best result. Bosse hopes for luck in love But the 30-year-old admits that life has not of Pakistan Cricket Board been easy in Syria, where he is still based, much to the amazement of many fellow athletes. More after 800m gamble pays big than 330,000 people have been killed in Syria ISLAMABAD: Newly-elected chairman of good announcements.” As part of the LONDON: Pierre-Ambroise Bosse loves gam- have the toy he wanted from the shop. since the ongoing conflict began with anti-gov- the Pakistan Cricket Board Najam Sethi says revival of international cricket in Pakistan, bling and on Tuesday he rolled the dice and “It was a war of attrition,” said Bosse, who ernment protests in March 2011. one of the challenges for him is to bring the PCB is also planning to host a Twenty20 won the biggest prize of his life, the 800 metres revealed he had spilt a bottle of water on his “If we didn’t face war in Syria, everything back international cricket to Pakistan. “You series against a World XI in Lahore. world title, to give France their first ever gold in bed on Monday when he was fantasising about would have been different now, from the visa know how much work we are doing in this However, the final dates and which players the event. winning the gold. “I felt like a little boy who and financial issues to general athlete’s facili- regard and soon the results will be in front are expected to come to Pakistan are yet to The 25-year-old, who had finished a valiant if wanted this toy and I said to myself: ‘in any case ties like access to coaching and treatment,” of you,” Sethi told reporters on Wednesday. be decided. frustrating fourth in last year’s Olympic final, you have nothing to lose’. “When I went past Ghazal told AFP. “We’re in a huge crisis, which Sethi, 69, will replace Shaharyar Khan, Sethi was also a former caretaker chief seized the initiative with 150 metres to go with them I put myself in their place and I said to affects the mentality of athletes. “Daily life in who quit because of health and personal minister of the Punjab province and was the a stunning burst passing Kipyegon Bett and myself: ‘What must they be thinking? I thought Syria is extremely hard. You can’t imagine what reasons after completing his tenure. Sethi key official behind the successful staging of race favourite Nijel Amos and held on to take they are going to pay for this and that pleased we face on a daily basis.” Ghazal added that he was unopposed and was unanimously Pakistan’s domestic Twenty20 league. the tape first from fast-finishing Pole Adam me’. “It is the first time in my career I have felt encountered problems travelling to compete elected by a new 10-member PCB board of Although the two editions of Pakistan Kszczot. like that. “Finally today I was ahead of every- internationally. governors. Super League were held in the United Arab “I am a gambler, I love going to the casino,” one. People can forgive me now because I now “I have big problems with embassies. They Pakistan’s deposed Prime Minister Emirates, Sethi staged the final of the sec- said Bosse. “And today I just gambled, I put have that world title.” Bosse, who away from the are sometimes afraid I am an immigrant,” he said. Nawaz Sharif had appointed Sethi as mem- ond edition of PSL at Lahore in March. everything on the red, even my last Euro. So track plays guitar-largely tunes by legendary “I’m an expert in embassies, where they are, their ber of the board of governors last month. It will be Sethi’s second term as chair- hopefully, this is also for luck in love.” Bosse, who French poet and songwriter Georges Brassens, addresses, when they open, when they close, It is mandatory, according to the PCB’s man of the PCB after he was involved in a is renowned for his offbeat character and said he thought he was seeing things after he what documents you need for visas... I’m an constitution, that the chairman should be legal battle over the leadership with former addressed his cat ‘Rabs’ after finishing outside went on his lap of honour and espied his best administrative expert in this subject.” elected from the members of the board of PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf. That ended in the medals in Rio by telling him to go the fridge friend in the crowd. Ghazal was refused a Moroccan visa for the governors. Zimbabwe has been the only May 2014 when Sethi said he would not and drink a beer for him, said he thought he had “He had a date with a girl in the south of Diamond League meeting in Rabat, but can now team to visit Pakistan since a terrorist contest elections for the chairman’s post. cast a spell over his rivals as no one threatened France yesterday and we spoke to each other on travel unimpeded in Europe thanks to a six- attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team’s bus Sethi will be travelling to Sri Lanka today him down the final 100m. the phone last night,” said Bosse. “He wished me month Schengen visa he managed to obtain in Lahore in 2009. “Lots of people are dis- to chair the meeting of the Asian Cricket “It felt like a nightmare as I was getting the best of luck and I thought I’d see him again through a Spanish embassy. appointed but I request you to show some Council. He said he will discuss the Sri chased,” he said. “It was a never ending night- in France. patience,” Sethi said. Lankan team’s tour to Pakistan later this year. mare. I could not understand why nobody was “And then tonight, I see him in the crowd OVERSEAS CAMPS “There are security issues, one day we Pakistan is due to host Sri Lanka in October going past me. “Even when I crossed the line I and I was so pleased. “He came all the way from While his daily training regime is based in decide that a team will come and then in the United Arab Emirates and Sethi said could not believe it. “The others killed them- France to see me. Maybe he brought me luck.” Damascus, Ghazal also departs, from neighbour- something happens (in Pakistan), but over Pakistan wants to host Sri Lanka in Pakistan selves and they were already dead in the last However, any thoughts of going out and cele- ing Lebanese capital Beirut as there is no access the next 2-3 months you will hear some after the series ends in the UAE. — AP 100m. “I was like a witch casting a spell on brating with him have perhaps been put on to international flights from Syria, for overseas them.” Bosse, who along with a friend launched hold. “I had to pinch myself really hard to realise camps, notably in Barcelona and Russia over an app called ‘Deserve Her’ earlier this year as a that I had really won,” he said. “In any case 200 winter, thanks to financial support from the rival he said to dating app ‘Tinder’, said that he metres after that I was throwing up. “I cannot Syrian Athletics Federation. had felt like a kid who would do anything to party like Usain Bolt.” — AFP “Everyone is surprised when I say I still train and live in Syria, especially as I am among the top six in the world,” said Ghazal, nominally employed as a government-paid sports teacher. With coach Imad Sarraj in tow, Ghazal said the thing he missed when competing was the back- room staff most competitors take for granted. “I don’t have a doctor, a physio, a masseur, I miss that a lot, especially in a championships where fatigue is great and you have to recover quickly,” he said. “Because of minor muscular problems, or cramps, you might lose a champi- onships and your heights may range between and 2.20 and 2.30, a huge gap.” Ghazal, who has suffered pain in his take-off foot, first appears in action in Friday’s qualifiers, and he said: “I don’t think about nailing a certain height. My whole focus will be on reaching the final.” His best this season has been 2.32m in last LAHORE: Najam Sethi of Pakistan Cricket Board addresses a news conference in month’s Diamond League meet in Paris, while 2.36 in Beijing last year remains his personal LONDON: France’s Pierre-Ambroise Bosse celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Lahore, Pakistan. yesterday. Najam Sethi has been elected yesterday, as new chair- men’s 800-meter final during the World Athletics Championships in London Tuesday. — AP man of the Pakistan Cricket Board for a three-year term. — AP best. “I hope to be as ready as I was in Paris,” Errani insists she is not a cheat after 2-month doping ban

MILAN: Former French Open finalist Sara Errani avoid a ban. “It is up to the athlete whether to we have managed to be even more united so struggled to hold back the tears yesterday as she continue playing or to suspend themselves,” she I’m proud of them.” Errani has also been insisted she is not a cheat after being handed a said. “I decided to continue because I knew and I retroactively disqualified from tournaments two-month doping ban. The International Tennis know that I had done nothing wrong. “I hoped from Feb. 16 through June 7. Her only notable Federation announced the suspension on for and I worked toward being found not guilty, performance in that period was a semifinal in Monday after Errani tested positive for the unfortunately the test on my hair that I present- Rabat, Morocco, in May, plus a second -round banned substance letrozole in a test taken in ed wasn’t accepted because of a legal technicali- loss at Roland Garros. February.At a news conference, Errani continued ty ... I have always been a champion of clean She announced she would appeal against the to blame food contamination from her mother’s sport, and I remain convinced that anyone who removal of her points earned during that period. breast cancer medication. voluntarily dopes should be banned for life.”An Errani repeatedly and heatedly criticized the “The sentence speaks clearly: I was found adjudication panel ruled that Errani’s fault was “at media for reporting falsehoods, adding: “You guilty of the involuntary ingestion of a substance the lower end of the scale,” but that she should played with the life and sentiments of other peo- which does not have a doping effect on a female,” still be banned for two months from Aug. 3. ple: of me, my mother, my family ... that makes said Errani, who reiterated several times that Errani’s ban will end on Oct. 2, precluding her me very angry.” Errani reached the 2012 French letrozole is not a performance-enhancing drug. from playing in the US Open. “I hope this time Open final, losing to Maria Sharapova, and has “I don’t know exactly how it could have hap- will give me even more motivation,” Errani said. “I completed a career grand slam in women’s dou- pened that a pharmaceutical pill taken by my hope to use this time to recover from the stress bles with Roberta Vinci. mother ended up in the food, but it’s the only and these awful experiences ... I will train my The 98th-ranked Errani has won nine singles plausible option, because we have eliminated all hardest, as I have always done, to try to return titles and 25 doubles titles in her WTA career. the others.” The 30-year-old Errani was informed stronger than before.” She reached a career-high singles ranking of MELBOURNE: In this file photo dated Thursday, Jan 19, 2017, Italy’s Sara Errani of the results of the test on April 28 but decided The Italian broke down in tears as she No. 5 in 2013. She also helped Italy to three makes a return to Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova during their second round match at to continue playing tennis in the hope she could added: “It’s a difficult situation for my family but Fed Cup titles. —AP the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia. — AP THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 SPORTS

Vikings owners join group trying to bring MLS to Nashville

NASHVILLE: The owners of the The expansion fee being charged by the door, soccer-specific venue to the 68,000- brother, is owner and president. Leonard ticket sales. They are a strong addition to Minnesota Vikings have joined a group league is $150 million. “We’ve been pas- seat U.S. Bank Stadium that opened for Wilf, their cousin, is owner and vice our bid.” trying to bring a Major League Soccer sionate about soccer for a long time, and the Vikings last year. Minnesota United, chairman. Nashville is one of 12 cities that sub- expansion franchise to Nashville, after a we believe very strongly in its future in led by owner Bill McGuire, is playing out- “They know sports and sports busi- mitted bids for four expansion franchises, failed bid to bring a club to their the United States,” Mark Wilf said in a side at the University of Minnesota for ness, and they are well-known and with both Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham enclosed NFL stadium. phone interview with The Associated two seasons until its new stadium opens. respected for their professional sports in North Carolina, Cincinnati, Detroit, Zygi Wilf, Mark Wilf and Leonard Wilf Press. “Really, our interest hasn’t wavered The Wilfs, who made their fortune in experience,” Ingram said in a statement Indianapolis, Phoenix, Sacramento and are minority partners in the Nashville since our efforts to bring MLS to real estate out of the family business released by his group. “The Wilf family San Diego in California, St. Louis, San project, according to Nashville Soccer Minnesota.” founded in New Jersey, bought the brings expertise in a number of areas Antonio and Tampa-St. Petersburg in Holdings CEO John R. Ingram. Terms of Minnesota United FC joined the MLS Vikings in 2005. Zygi Wilf is owner and like stadium development, fan experi- Florida. The MLS is expected to announce their investment haven’t been disclosed. this season. The league preferred an out- chairman. Mark Wilf, Zygi’s younger ence, marketing, communications and two sites later this year. —AP

No PSG contact over Sanchez, says Wenger

LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene time off after playing at the Confederations Wenger said yesterday he has had no con- Cup with Chile. tact with Paris Saint-Germain regarding Wenger said the forward had sustained Alexis Sanchez, who will miss the start of an abdominal injury and was likely to miss the season through injury. Sanchez, 28, has both Friday’s game against Leicester and been linked with a move to PSG, who have the trip to Stoke City on August 19. “He has just completed a world-record 222 million a little abdominal strain that he caught on euros ($260 million) swoop for Barcelona Sunday morning in training, before he superstar Neymar. came to Wembley (for last Sunday’s But Wenger said he had not heard from Community Shield),” Wenger said. PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi and “He had a scan two days ago and he’s referred to French media reports suggest- out for a while. I don’t know if it is two ing PSG are more interested in signing weeks or one more week, but he will not be Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe. “It’s a long time I available. I think he will not play at Stoke, didn’t speak to Nasser, because it’s certainly yes.” Wenger added: “For us Alexis Sanchez very busy to complete the transfer of is a loss, of course. But we have all the other Neymar,” Wenger told a press conference at players prepared in pre-season and they Arsenal’s London Colney base. are all ready. Asked if he expected Al-Khelaifi to get in “It can happen in pre-season and any- touch, Wenger replied: “No, no. I think if way, I don’t think I would have included you read the French papers, they are on him on Friday night. I don’t think I would Mbappe’s case to finish their transfer mar- have started him.” ket.” Wenger was coy, though, when he was Speaking after Arsenal beat Chelsea on asked if any bids had been tabled for penalties at Wembley, Wenger revealed he Sanchez. was looking to trim his squad before the “I can’t tell you that at the moment,” said transfer window closes, but he said no Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho the Frenchman, whose side open their departures were currently imminent. Premier League campaign at home to “No,” he replied when asked if any play- SOCCER Leicester City tomorrow. “I just think we are ers were poised to leave. “Yesterday I had not open-what I said to you many times-to the managers’ meeting and was talking any offers, anyway.” with the other managers in the other clubs. Sanchez, who has also been linked with It looks like everywhere there is many, Guardiola returns to Manchester City, has not played for Arsenal many players and a bit of congestion at the in pre-season after being granted extra moment everywhere.” — AFP Threatened by Trump, Man City drawing board LONDON: Rattled by a chastening first season in but united by football England, Pep Guardiola has gone back to the drawing board in an attempt to fashion Top 10 Premier League NEW YORK: New York’s most unlikely football this country-this friendship will last forever,” Manchester City into Premier League champions. league meets every Saturday in the Bronx. Its he said. Expectations were sky-high when Guardiola players are minors who arrived from Central alighted in Manchester after years of being transfers of 2017-18 America without their parents, with no docu- A BROKEN SYSTEM courted by City, but a title challenge failed to ments or money. They made the dangerous Although the US government does not materialise and his side did not make a mark in LONDON: Ahead of Arsenal’s home game with right flank for Tottenham have turned him into journey here with one goal in mind: to escape provide them with an attorney, the teenagers any of the cup competitions. They return to the Leicester City in the curtain-raiser to the new England’s first-choice number two. the violence and poverty of their homelands. must fight in court to stay here. Most depend fray this weekend having spent around £200 mil- Premier League season tomorrow, AFP Sport Now, the 50 or so members of the “Union” upon help provided by lawyers doing pro lion ($261 million, 221.3 million euros) on players selects the 10 biggest transfers of the close season: Bernardo Silva league face deportation. Football acts as sort bono work. Thanks to his lawyer Jodi and Guardiola believes an exciting new team is Monaco (FRA) to Manchester City; £43 million of collective therapy for them, a place to Ziesemer, who is handling around 700 cases taking shape. Romelu Lukaku Portuguese playmaker Silva pitched up at City briefly forget the tragedies of the past and of unaccompanied Central American minors “With all respect to the players, last season we Everton to Manchester United; £75 million after his 11 goals and 12 assists inspired Monaco to the new threats they face from the adminis- for Catholic Charities, Teofilo is close to obtain- were one of the oldest teams in the Premier After four increasingly prolific seasons at Ligue 1 glory and a place in the Champions League tration of President Donald Trump. ing the green card that will allow him to stay. League. We didn’t buy full-backs for five, six years,” Everton, Belgium striker Lukaku has been given semi-finals. The 22-year-old is expected to line up “When you’re playing football, you are not But around 60 percent of unaccompanied said Guardiola. “We decided last season we could another shot at the big time with Manchester on the right flank for City, as he did at Monaco, but thinking of your immigration case, or people minors have to go before a judge and prose- change the team to make the team younger for United. Lukaku, 24, has been brought in to replace is likely to have been earmarked as the long-term who want to hurt you back home, or that a cutor on their own, with no lawyer and often the next four or five years. “Danilo is 26, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and will hope to do a better job successor to his namesake David Silva. judge may deport you,” said Elvis Garcia without even speaking English, a situation (Benjamin) Mendy is 23, Bernardo (Silva) is 22, of impressing manager Jose Mourinho than he Callejas, who is both coach and counsellor to Ziesemer calls “ridiculous” and a symptom that Ederson is 23, so we bought players who are managed during their time together at Chelsea. Tiemoue Bakayoko the young players. “the system is broken.” “These kids are fleeing going to be stable for the next years.” There were Monaco (FRA) to Chelsea; £40 million “You’re going after the ball, your main goal horrific situations, abuse, they are fleeing some promising signs last season-an opening sal- Alvaro Morata The third player to have left Monaco for is to win, play as a team and just have fun.” death threats,” she said, noting that the situa- vo of 10 straight wins, a stunning Champions Real Madrid (ESP) to Chelsea; £58 million England, France midfielder Bakayoko will make Garcia Callejas, 27, founded the league in tion has only deteriorated since Trump League victory over Barcelona-but City never With Diego Costa having been very publicly Chelsea’s midfield an even more intimidating 2014, when a record of almost 70,000 minors became president on the back of promises to found any consistent form. frozen out by manager Antonio Conte, Chelsea prospect. Tall and muscular, the former Rennes flooded across the Rio Grande into the United deport millions of undocumented migrants. Guardiola seemed unprepared for the rude broke their transfer record to sign 24-year-old player will provide a redoubtable physical pres- States without their parents. The president has also linked these minors physicality of English football and was derided for Spain striker Morata. He made an inauspicious ence alongside the buzzing N’Golo Kante. with the rise of the dangerous street gang saying he was “not a coach for the tackles” after a start to his Chelsea career by squandering his KIDS AGAIN MS-13, which he has vowed to eradicate. one-sided 4-2 defeat at Leicester City. City’s foot- spot-kick in a Community Shield penalty Nemanja Matic Garcia Callejas is a migration counsellor “Things have taken a dramatic turn since the ball was, occasionally, dazzling and they were only shootout loss to Arsenal. for Catholic Charities. He arrived unaccompa- Trump administration in terms of how coop- outscored by champions Chelsea and Tottenham Chelsea to Manchester United; £40 million nied in the United States when he was just 15, erative the government is in resolving these Hotspur, but finding an effective defensive config- Benjamin Mendy Deemed surplus to requirements at Chelsea dodging border guards in El Paso, Texas to cases,” Ziesemer said. “Before this govern- uration gave Guardiola a constant headache. John Monaco (FRA) to Manchester City; £52 million following Bakayoko’s arrival, Matic moved to make it. He is also a huge football fan-his ment, attorneys were much more cooperative Stones looked shaky following his big-money Saddled with an ageing group of full-backs, Pep United to link up with Mourinho, who previously office is adorned with the banners of his in not actively fighting to deport kids that move from Everton and Guardiola’s dissatisfaction Guardiola found it difficult to play the kind of brought him back to Chelsea from Benfica in favorite teams, Barcelona and Paris Saint- were very young, or in therapy, or had med- with his full-back options saw midfielders thrusting football he loves in his maiden campaign 2014. A stylish but steely holding midfielder, the Germain. He visits detention centers to inter- ical issues,” she said. Fernandinho and Jesus Navas deployed in the as Manchester City manager. He has taken remedi- 28-year-old Serbia international will provide a view recently arrived minors from Central wide defensive positions. There should not be any al action during the close season, most notably counterweight for the forward runs of last year’s America and determine if they qualify for any LOOKING FOR A FUTURE shoehorning of players into unfamiliar roles this forking out £52 million to make France left-back star signing, Paul Pogba. kind of protection. When he founded the Teofilo is the youngest of five brothers. season after Guardiola signed three top-level full- Mendy the game’s most expensive defender. Union league, he had just three boys from After his mother died when he was two, he backs-Kyle Walker, Benjamin Mendy and Danilo-at Ederson Honduras on board, and used trash cans as was raised by his grandmother. But when she a combined cost of around £124 million. Alexandre Lacazette Benfica (POR) to Manchester City; £35 million goalposts. Now he has more than 50 boys died, he was left practically alone. At 14, he Lyon (FRA) to Arsenal; £46.5 million rising to The goalkeeping situation gave Guardiola from across Central America and the league is and a brother travelled to the Rio Grande on AGUERO-JESUS CONUNDRUM £52.6 million constant problems during his first season at the backed by the South Bronx United club, the roof of a Mexican cargo train nicknamed Guardiola hopes to have put his goalkeeping France striker Lacazette had been poised to Etihad Stadium, with Claudio Bravo proving an which has included the league in a number of “The Beast” for the number of migrants who problems to bed as well, having reacted to Claudio join Atletico Madrid, only for the Court of inadequate replacement for Joe Hart, who was its social programs. die or are maimed on it. Bravo’s travails by bringing in Brazil goalkeeper Arbitration for Sport to uphold a transfer ban loaned out to Torino. Guardiola moved to reme- “The kids that we work with have to grow On the banks of the river, the brothers said Ederson from Benfica in a £35 million deal. against the Spanish club. Arsenal stepped in, dy the problem by signing 23-year-old Brazilian up very fast,” he said. “But on the football a quick goodbye to each other “so that we Bernardo Silva, meanwhile, arrived from breaking their transfer record to sign the 26-year- Ederson, who became the world’s second most pitch, they can be kids again.” Since 2014, wouldn’t cry. I swam across with a bag of Monaco, further strengthening a stellar attacking old, who was the top-scoring Frenchman in expensive goalkeeper after Gianluigi Buffon. more than 200,000 unaccompanied clothes tied to my wrist.” Now Teofilo is finish- department that also contains Sergio Aguero, Ligue 1 in each of the last three seasons. teenagers and children have arrived in the ing high school but cannot forget Honduras. Gabriel Jesus, Leroy Sane, David Silva, Kevin De Mohamed Salah United States from Mexico and Central He closes his eyes as he recalls what he miss- Bruyne and Raheem Sterling. “Manchester City Kyle Walker Roma (ITA) to Liverpool; £34 million America, according to the US Border Patrol. es most: “The sunshine, the beach, coconuts, have the best team on paper,” ex-England mid- Tottenham Hotspur to Manchester City; £45 million A bright light in a gloomy transfer window for Teofilo Chavez is a promising 17-year-old my friends, my grandmother, my father, the fielder Owen Hargreaves told the Premier League The second of Manchester City’s three new Liverpool. Egyptian winger Salah did not get a player who dreams of going pro. He was 14 plantations near my house.” The youngest official website. “It took a bit of an adjustment for full-backs (the other being Brazilian Danilo), look-in during his previous spell with Chelsea, when he left Corozal, on Honduras’ Caribbean player in the league is 15-year-old Yefri, who Pep Guardiola, but City are my favourites.” Walker arrived from Spurs after Dani Alves opted but he excelled in Serie A with Fiorentina and coast, to stay with his aunt and uncle in the arrived three months ago from Guatemala Back-up goalkeeper Willy Caballero, full-backs to join Paris Saint-Germain over rejoining forces Roma, scoring 35 goals in 81 games. denotes fee Bronx. “These are the first friends I made in with his 11-year-old brother. —AFP Pablo Zabaleta, Bacary Sagna and Gael Clichy and with Guardiola. Walker’s flying raids down the as reported by British media. —AFP wingers Jesus Navas and Nolito have all left, while the unwanted Joe Hart has gone out on loan again to West Ham United. Guardiola has tested out a three-man defence in pre-season, with Stones lin- ing up alongside Nicolas Otamendi and captain Vincent Kompany, whose ability to remain fit will once again be under scrutiny. Playing three at the back may enable Guardiola to associate Aguero and Jesus in attack, after he generally used a single-striker system last season following Jesus’s arrival in January. Even more so than his old foe Jose Mourinho across town at Manchester United, if Guardiola cannot at the very least orchestrate a sustained title challenge, his gilded reputation will take a sizeable hit. Last sea- son was the first time in his managerial career that he finished a campaign without having added at least one trophy to his collection. NEW YORK: Against a backdrop of Yankee Stadium players for South Bronx United go Another season without silverware will raise through their warm-ups before a match at Macombs Dam Park in New York. South serious doubts as to whether he really is the man Bronx United is composed of minors from Central America who arrived alone to the to carry City to the summit of European football Romelu Lukaku United States. — AFP for the first time. —AFP Nothing to prove, says Threatened by McIlroy as he tries Donald Trump, but to end major drought united by football

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LONDON: South Africa’s Wayde Van Niekerk, left, crosses the line to win the gold medal in the Men’s 400m final ahead of Bahamas’ Steven Gardiner, right, who took bronze during the World Athletics Championships in London Tuesday. — AP One-lap wonder Van Niekerk targets Johnson double

LONDON: Wayde van Niekerk’s bid for a first doubting my momentum. In the last 150 who smashed Johnson’s 400m world record just so grateful to say I came through with a receive a medal as part of a championships ini- world double since 1995 now turns to the metres I tried putting in an extra gear, but I when winning gold in Rio and then his rarely- gold medal. tiative to reward coaches. “Everyone knows the 200m after he stormed to a comfortable victo- couldn’t catch my stride until my last few run 300m record in Ostrava last month. “Every year has its new challenges, and superstar coach I have,” he said of the 74-year- ry in the 400m. After initially struggling with metres. I just allowed the race to go through to “It’s competition, it’s very unpredictable. every year it gets tough. I don’t think it ever old great-grandmother who oversees the the cold, the 25-year-old ran a solid final bend the finish line.” “My body still feels very good. It took me a became easier. Right after Rio I found out I had hottest property in world athletics. to blast to victory in 43.98 seconds with a lot Thoughts will turn straight to the 200m, while to recover. “But from endurance I go a back injury, and this entire season I have “It’s actually a massive honour for me to be to spare, and went straight into recovery and a rare double. The last athlete to claim the straight to speed... It’s a day-by-day, step-by- been struggling to find fitness, but at the same able to reach these great heights with her. “She ahead of yesterday’s 200m semi-finals, with 200/400m double was American Michael step process for us athletes.” time my times have been getting better, espe- has had to wait a long time - with the third the final today. Johnson, who achieved the feat the 1995 cially in the short sprints.” gold, she gets to take one home with her too. “It was quite freezing and I struggled to get worlds in Gothenburg, repeating the achieve- NEW CHALLENGES Van Niekerk, the first athlete to break 10 Unfortunately my two previous medals had to myself warmed up and ready,” said Van ment a year later in the 1996 Olympics in Van Niekerk reiterated that every season seconds over 100m, 20sec over 200m and go to Mum as she said ‘Everything achieved at Niekerk, who came into the 400m as defend- Atlanta. threw up new challenges. “I know it’s never 44sec over 400m, added he was delighted his home has to stay here’. So I am glad to be able ing world and Olympic champion. “I was “It’s easier said than done,” said Van Niekerk, going to be a walk in the park,” he said. “I’m coach Anna “Tannie Ans” Botha would also to take this one home myself!” — AFP Shapovalov battles back as young stars shine in Montreal

MONTREAL: Canadian teenager Denis finals this week. ed the evening action on Court Central, Shapovalov saved four match points en American Ernesto Escobedo, 21 years the 23-year-old Austrian taking on route to a three-set victory over Rogerio old and ranked 85th in the world, got Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman for a Dutra Silva on Tuesday in the first round his chance as a lucky loser when 10th- place in the third round. of the ATP Montreal Masters. The 18- seeded Czech Tomas Berdych withdrew Thiem, ranked seventh in the world, year-old trailed 4-6 in the second-set with a rib injury. Escobedo stepped in lifted a title in Rio de Janeiro this year tiebreaker but saved all four match and defeated Georgia’s Nikoloz and reached clay court finals in points he faced to force a third set. Basilashvili 7-6 (7/4), 6-4. Barcelona and Madrid-losing to Nadal in “I don’t remember all of them. both. In other first-round action, Honestly, it’s a little bit of a blur,” ‘RIB DYSFUNCTION’ American Sam Querrey defeated Shapovalov said. “I remember one of Berdych, a semi-finalist at Los Cabos Vincent Millot for the second time in as them, he passed me. I hit a pretty tough in Mexico last week, tweeted his regret many weeks, peppering the French volley. It was a pretty long point there. at having to withdraw. “I am sorry I have qualifier with 18 aces in a 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), On one of them, I remember I was pret- to apologize (to) all my Montreal fans,” 7-5 win. Querrey beat Millot in the quar- ty far back. I went for a backhand down tweeted Berdych, who had played in 12 ter-finals at Los Cabos en route to his the line, which was pretty good. I wasn’t straight Canadian Masters. “I couldn’t 10th ATP title. holding back. “I just told myself, he’s got play, because of my rib disfunction I American Jack Sock, seeded 15th, to win it from me, I’m not going to give need to get well to go to office soon!!” also advanced, downing France’s Pierre- it to him. I think I did a good job to stay Third-seeded Dominic Thiem highlight- Hugues Herbert 7-6 (7/4), 6-3. —AFP tough out there.” Shapovalov broke TORONTO: Eugenie Bouchard, of Canada, reacts during a first round match against Donna Vekic, of Croatia, at the Rogers Cup Brazil’s Dutra Silva in the seventh game women’s tennis tournament in Toronto, Tuesday. — AP of the third and went on to close out a 4-6, 7-6 (10/8), 6-4 victory. “It’s matches like this I live for and that I play for,” said Home court no help as Shapovalov, who earned a second- round meeting with former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro of Bouchard falls in Toronto Argentina. With old-guard stars Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer taking a day off-19- TORONTO: Home support proved no when she reached the 2014 Wimbledon American CoCo Vandeweghe with a 6-3, time Grand Slam champion Federer to help as Eugenie Bouchard’s struggles final on the heels of semi-final appear- 6-2 win. Radwanska, winner of the celebrate his 36th birthday-Shapovalov continued Tuesday with a straight-sets ances at the Australian and French Canadian crown in 2014 when the tour- was one of a wealth of young talents to loss to qualifier Donna Vekic at the WTA Opens, was once ranked as high as fifth nament was held in Montreal, has won shine on Tuesday. South Korean 21- hardcourt tournament in Toronto. in the world. five straight hardcourt meetings against year-old Chung Hyeon withstood 16 Croatia’s Vekic powered to a 6-3, 6-4 vic- She’s now 70th and received a wild- Vandeweghe — who managed to turn aces to beat 2014 semi-finalist Feliciano tory, to the disappointment of a partisan card entry into the main draw, but her the tables in a grass court clash at Lopez 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (7/3). crowd whose vocal support couldn’t lift Toronto campaign lasted just 94 minutes. Birmingham last year. After the third set went to the Bouchard. “I’m obviously a bit low in confidence It was a disappointing early exit for tiebreaker without a break of serve, the The Canadian, who has just one right now,” Bouchard said. “So it’s tough Vandeweghe, who reached the final at 56th-ranked Chung built a 4-2 advan- match win since a second-round exit at to get through tough matches when Stanford last week to move into the top tage and went on to secure the victory the French Open, committed 32 you’re in a moment like that.” 20 in the world rankings. Russia’s in two hours and 16 minutes. He next unforced errors and seven double faults. In second-round action, former world Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova swept past faces ninth-seeded Belgian David She was broken six times by the 21-year- number one Caroline Wozniacki of France’s Alize Cornet 6-0, 6-1 to book a Goffin, a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 winner over old Vekic, who is in the main draw of this Denmark, seeded sixth, powered second-round meeting with newly mint- Japan’s Yuichi Sugita. Croatian 20-year- US Open tuneup for the first time. through with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Russian ed world number one and top seed old Borna Coric breezed past Russian “I guess I am going to have to have a Ekaterina Alexandrova. Fifth-seeded Elina Karolina Pliskova. lucky loser Mikhail Youzhny 6-2, 6-4 to tournament in Croatia to finally have the Svitolina of Ukraine also advanced with a Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia set up a second-round meeting with home crowd,” said Vekic, who booked a 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 win over Russian Daria downed Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 7- top-seeded Nadal. Coric has won two of second-round clash with German third Kasatkina. 5, 6-0 to line up a meeting with second- three prior encounters with the Spanish seed Angelique Kerber-who held the In other first-round matches, 10th- seeded defending champion Simona great, who won a 10th French Open title MONTREAL: Denis Shapovalov of Canada returns to Rogerio Dutra Silva of world number one ranking earlier this seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland Halep, who won the Canadian title in this year and can regain the world num- Brazil during the first round of the Rogers Cup tennis tournament, Tuesday in year. Bouchard, touted as a rising star continued her dominance of big-serving Montreal last year. — AFP ber one ranking with a run to the semi- Montreal. — AP Al-Babtain Group wins ‘Outstanding Performance Award’ Page 18

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KUWAIT: A general view of the Central Bank of Kuwait building in downtown Kuwait. 73% of Kuwait population have bank accounts: CBK chief CBK releases Financial Stability Report 2016

KUWAIT: Governor of the Central Bank of The fourth one sheds light on develop- (some $1.4 billion) against growth that crisis 87 percent-at a time liquidity levels was taken in tandem with a declaration by the Kuwait Dr Mohammad Al-Hashel said yester- ments in the money markets, foreign currency reached 1.7 percent in 2015. The growth was remained robust at the banks. Federal Reserve with respect of hiking the day that 73 percent of Kuwait’s population, exchange, stocks and properties and the fifth the lowest in the past years, largely as a result interest rate and for sake of maintaining the whose age above 15, have a bank account- is an analysis about settling financial pay- of the decline of the banking loans portfolio in Profitability Kuwaiti dinar’s attractiveness, nationalizing the highest proportion at the regional level. ments in Kuwait. the GCC states, Asian and European nations. Kuwaiti banks continued to post net profits savings in the local currency for sake of fund- Governor Al-Hashel made the statement on in 2016, though at a slower pace as compared ing various sectors of the national economy the occasion of releasing the financial stabili- Performance Credit growth better to 2015, where the net earnings rose to KD and creating an adequate environment for a ty report (2016), the fifth regular report, Despite challenges, the CBK precautionary Shedding further light on the domestic 745.8 million (some $2.4 billion), at a 5.6 per- sustainable economy growth. issued by the bank as part of efforts to boost measures and hazard early warning systems market, he said the credit growth was better, at cent in annual growth proportion. Capital risk transparency, publicize data and document- have proven helpful in maintaining strength a rate of 2.9 percent, distributed over 70.5 per- adequacy stood at 16.9 percent in 2015, 17.5 Debt instrument ed statistics of the national banking and and regular performance of the banking sec- cent of the total loans, matured in December percent in 2015, 18.6 percent in 2016, he said, The Kuwaiti Government, in light of the financial sectors. tor in 2016, he said. 2016 for conglomerates, 24.2 percent for per- noting that the Kuwaiti banks’ maintaining good liquidity levels, decided to issue general He said that the report includes monitor- Moreover, they have contributed to main- sonal loans and 5.3 percent for small and medi- high capitals contributed to safeguarding the debt instruments. It issued KD 2.92 billion ing and analyzing economic and financial taining steady growth and positive perform- um establishments. ($9.6 billion) worth of such instruments in developments on basis of their relation with ance in several sectors that constitute founda- Total banking deposits in 2016 posted 2016, against KD 1.25 billion ($4 billion) in growth slowness by 2.4 percent compared to 2015, as a result of which public debts rose in three percent in 2015. In spite of the record 2016 to KD 3.3 billion ($10.8 billion). On the The report includes monitoring and analyzing economic growth of the local deposits, 4.8 percent, the exchange market, he said the Kuwaiti dinar and financial developments on basis of their relation with general growth of the deposits declined due to dropped against the US dollar by 0.9 percent drop of the deposits by companies affiliated to in 2016, noting that the exchange rate fluctua- the financial stability. They reveal the banking sector the banks or the banks’ external branches. The tions were within a very limited range (02.+) banking sector continues to enjoy stable finan- Governor Al-Hashel attributed the KD rela- capacity to withstand shocks and carry on with regular cial base, with the forward deposits accounting tive stability against the greenback and other services. The report includes five chapters; the first tackles to 63.6 percent of the total, thus affirming sta- major currencies to the state policy of pegging bility of the funding basis for the banking the dinar to a basket of currencies. As to performance by conventional and Islamic banks as finan- apparatus and its ability to remain stable, amid Boursa Kuwait, he said that the bourse con- cial brokers, along with shedding light on credits’ distribu- liquidity pressure. cluded the year bullishly where the bench- On risks’ assessment, he said improvement mark rose 2.4 percent compared to the decline tion trends and deposit activities. at this level persisted, in the past year, with posted in 2015, 14.1 percent. This improve- respect of the assets’ quality, where irregular ment was caused by recovery of the oil prices the financial stability. They reveal the bank- tions for financial stability. Financial brokerage lending dropped by 2.2 percent in December in last quarter of 2016. Local realty sector ing sector capacity to withstand shocks and continued improving in 2016, though at a 2016, compared to 2.4 percent in the previ- declined for the second year in a row, in terms carry on with regular services. The report, he slower pace, as compared to 2015. The bank- ous year. This proportion is lower than that Dr Mohammad Al-Hashel of number and value of transactions, respec- added, includes five chapters; the first tackles ing sector growth slowed in 2016, with the posted before the global financial crisis, tively 21.4 percent and 23.1 percent, Al-Hashel performance by conventional and Islamic overall assets growing by 1.85 percent com- reaching 3.8 percent in 2007. financial system. The Capital risk adequacy, he said. Property also dropped in terms of sec- banks as financial brokers, along with shed- pared to 2.6 percent in 2015. Decline of these loans became possible said, climbed due to robust growth of the tors, with sales in the housing and investment ding light on credits’ distribution trends and Local assets’ growth was relatively better, due to fruitful cooperation among the banks banks’ capitals — 10.3 percent-compared to ones falling respectively by 30.3 and 33.4 per- deposit activities. posting 3.1 percent, against backdrop of the and their adherence to the CBK instructions, assets’ growth, with projected risks at four per- cent. But, commercial sales rose 26.3 percent. The second chapter deals with assessing local crediting growth which reached 2.9 per- Governor Al-Hashel explained. cent in 2016. The Kuwaiti banks maintained Noticeable spread of information technology basic hazards facing the banking sector, the cent, lower than the proportion of 2015 — 8.5 Moreover, in this vein, there was tangi- high levels of capitals despite quarterly stress and substantial development in the sector of third addresses in an analytical manner trends percent. Basic banking assets’ decline was ble improvement in the proportion of cov- tests, conducted in 2016. automated machines have resulted in increas- of profit-making, capitalization in the banking largely attributed to the noticeable slowness ering allotments to the irregular loans in The CBK, in December 2016, increased the ing digital banking transactions, he indicated sector, its resistance, according to several in credit growth, with the loans portfolio in the 2016, rising from 205 percent in 2015 to discount interest rate by a quarter point, to 2.5 affirming the CBK vital role to safeguard the financial and economic pressure tests, the banks recording slight growth estimated at 237 percent in 2016, much higher than the percent, the same level that existed in October national financial system in the conclusion of governor added. one percent, with a rise of KD 424 million proportion recorded ahead of the global 2012. Al-Hashel affirmed that the decision his statement. — KUNA Brexit inflation pushing British US push for freer NAFTA shoppers to cheaper goods e-commerce faces wrath MEXICO CITY: A US proposal for Mexico and The US plan was unveiled in July as part of LONDON: British firms are keeping a lid on tainty and higher prices caused by the referen- wages are seen rising by 2 percent and then 3 Canada to vastly raise the value of online pur- the Trump administration’s goals to renegotiate pay and automating more production while dum decision in June 2016, and the central percent. After unexpectedly outperforming chases that can be imported duty-free from the 25-year-old treaty. While Mexico and Canada some shoppers, faced with rising prices, are bank cut its forecasts for future growth and other big advanced economies last year, in stores like Amazon.com and eBay is emerging are still formulating their responses, Mexico City switching to cheaper products, the Bank of wages. Yesterday’s report by the BoE’s regional 2017 Britain had its slowest first half of the as a flashpoint in an upcoming renegotiation of is leaning strongly against the proposal in its cur- England said yesterday. staff-which fed into last week’s forecasts- year since 2012. the NAFTA trade deal. Vulnerable industries like rent form, and Ottawa may not be far behind. The findings came in a report from around showed businesses planned to offer pay Firms reported prices for goods and servic- footwear, textiles and bricks and mortar retail in The proposed $800 level “opens a completely the country that showed Brexit is hurting awards of between 2 and 3 percent, despite es rose at the fastest pace in four years, in line Mexico and Canada are pushing back hard unnecessary door” to imports from outside the households, mainly though the weaker pound. growing recruitment difficulties. with official measures of inflation, and con- against the proposal by the US trade represen- NAFTA trading bloc, Mexican Economy Minister Businesses serving British consumers are suf- “Overall employment intentions remained sumer spending growth slowed. tative to raise Mexican and Canadian duty-free Ildefonso Guajardo said on Thursday on the side- fering compared with export-focused manu- modest,” the BoE said. “Growth in manufactur- “Some contacts ascribed this to increased import limits for e-commerce to the US level of lines of a NAFTA-related event, calling it “a very facturers, as the weaker exchange rate and ing (employment) intentions was stable and caution among consumers, and to consumers $800, from current thresholds of $50 and C$20, sensitive topic.” The growing controversy over higher inflation following last year’s vote to was dampened by a stronger focus on produc- trading down to cheaper products or brands,” respectively. For the Mexicans, the main worry how to account for a burgeoning regional e- leave the European Union feeds through the tivity improvements and automation over job the BoE said. Sales at consumer services busi- is that such a move could open a back door for commerce sector dominated by the United economy. creation,” it added. The BoE forecast last week nesses grew at their slowest pace in over four cheap imports from Asia and beyond. For States highlights a rare area where the Trump Canadian retailers, the fear is that e-commerce administration is pushing to liberalize trade rules Last week BoE Governor Mark Carney said that economic growth would slow to 1.7 per- years, while manufacturing exports saw their companies will undercut their prices. rather than tightening them. — Reuters Britain’s economy was suffering from uncer- cent this year and 1.6 percent in 2018, while fastest expansion since 2011. — Reuters THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 BUSINESS

Al-Babtain Group wins ‘Outstanding Performance Award’ Infiniti Middle East recognition for attaining 100% training targets KUWAIT: Abdulmohsen Abdulaziz Al Babtain Co Abdulmohsen Abdulaziz Al-Babtain appreciated and (AABC), the exclusive dealer of Infiniti vehicles in the thanked Dr Mahendhran for his contribution. State of Kuwait, is proud to announce its new Al-Babtain CEO Saleh Al-Babtain commented on achievement of ‘Outstanding performance Award the award, “This recognition brings great pride to us for attaining 100 percent training targets in both as we strive to continuously push our boundaries to Infiniti Sales and Aftersales at the Infiniti Middle East deliver excellence to our customers. Al-Babtain will FY16 Infiniti Quality Program (IQP). continue to reach for new milestones as we forge The IQP was developed by Infiniti Middle East as ahead”. “We have built an empire of outstanding per- a specific initiative to recognize and enhance sonnel who are eager to learn and grow. It is our Operational Excellence of its partners. The award responsibility to nurture talent to provide the best was presented by Nissan Gulf (NGF) Chief Operating sales and aftersales services as the Al-Babtain brand Officer, Cameron Gowing to Al-Babtain Group commands. All of our staff undergoes rigorous train- Learning & Development Manager, Dr M ing programs and we are proud to invest in our Mahendhran. Other attendees at the prestigious human capital. The new award is further testament event included NGF Director - Aftersales David to our commitment to maintain a prominent bench- Graves, NGF General Manager - Aftersales Harmeet mark in the automotive industry”, said Al-Babtain Singh, NGF Deputy General Manager - Training & COO, Mohamed Shalaby. Dealer Network Development Fatma Zenagui & NGF “Our highly professional sales and after sales staff Deputy General Manager - Aftersales Surendra reflect the group’s values of passion, integrity and Acharya. commitment and is firmly committed to achieving In honor of the recent accolade, Al-Babtain held a excellence and delivering a superior customer expe- congratulatory meeting where Al-Babtain CEO, rience from start to finish”, added CHRO Saleh Al-Babtain, COO Mohamed Shalaby and CHRO Abdulmohsen Abdulaziz Al-Babtain. China helps launch $13 billion Belt and Road rail project in Malaysia New push to Beijing’s Belt and Road infrastructure

KUANTAN, Malaysia: China and Malaysia broke For China, the project is another expansion of Najib has announced a spree of infrastructure ground yesterday on a $13 billion rail project its soft power in Malaysia, which also lays claim projects in the last few months, many funded by linking peninsular Malaysia’s east and west, the to some disputed South China Sea islands, and is China, as he builds up momentum for a general largest such project in the country and a major critical for China’s geopolitical and strategic election that he has to call by mid-2018. part of Beijing’s Belt and Road infrastructure interests. A Nomura research report last month said push. “The China government has attached great foreign direct investment inflows from China The planned 688-km (430-mile) East Coast importance to the China-Malaysia relations into Malaysia surged by 119 percent in 2016 and Rail Link will connect the South China Sea, large and has always considered Malaysia a dear continued to grow at 64 percent year on year in parts of which are claimed by China, at the Thai neighbor and trustworthy partner who is com- the first quarter of 2017. The growing closeness border in the east with the strategic shipping mitted to seeking mutually beneficial coopera- to China has raised eyebrows among Najib’s routes of the Straits of Malacca in the west. It is tion and common development in the coun- opponents who have argued that the country among the most prominent projects in China’s try,” Chinese State Councillor Wang Yong said has become too reliant on Chinese funds. controversial Belt and Road Initiative, which at the ceremony, heading up a 100-strong del- But Najib dismissed the concerns in a speech aims to build a modern-day “Silk Road” connect- egation in Kuantan. on Tuesday, saying turning away from Chinese Burgan Bank announces ing the world’s second-largest economy by land Najib said the project would be financed with FDI made “no economic sense”. There have been corridors to Southeast Asia, Pakistan and Central an 85 percent loan from China Exim Bank and protests in Sri Lanka and Thailand over the Belt winner of Al-Thuraya Asia and maritime routes opening up trade with the balance through a “sukuk” Islamic bond pro- and Road initiative. A planned rail link through the Middle East and Europe. gram managed by local investment banks. Thailand hit some resistance with what critics salary account draw “The ECRL is indeed yet another ‘game The project is being built by China said were Beijing’s excessive demands and unfa- changer’ and a ‘mindset changer’ for Malaysia as Communications Construction Co Ltd. Beijing vorable financing. KUWAIT: Burgan Bank, the second largest in ing sources, and a strong capital base. The it will significantly cut travel time to and from has repeatedly come to the rescue of Najib over But Thailand’s cabinet last month approved terms of assets, announced yesterday adoption of state-of-the-art services and tech- the east coast of the peninsula,” Malaysian Prime the last year, as he sought foreign investment construction of the first phase of a $5.5 billion EBRAHIM FALEH MAHMOUD as the lucky win- nology has positioned it as a trendsetter in the Minister Najib Razak said at the ceremony half that would help him pay off a massive debt piled railway project to link the industrial eastern ner of the Al-Thuraya Salary Account monthly domestic market and within the MENA region. way along the route in Kuantan, which faces the up by scandal-plagued state fund 1Malaysia seaboard with southern China through land- draw. The winner was presented with a Burgan Bank’s brand has been created on a South China Sea. Development Berhad (1MDB). locked Laos. — Reuters Nissan Patrol SUV. foundation of real values - of trust, commit- The draw rewards new and existing cus- ment, excellence and progression, to remind tomers who transfer their salary to Burgan us of the high standards to which we aspire. Bank by offering them a chance to win a ‘People come first’ is the foundation on which Informal economy not enough to Nissan Patrol SUV every month. With every KD its products and services are developed. 10 available in the account, the customer The bank was re-certified with the presti- receives one chance to enter the draw. gious ISO 9001:2008, making it the first bank handle Africa’s workforce explosion The Al-Thuraya account holders have the in the GCC, and the only bank in Kuwait to LONDON: Unemployment in Nigeria, sub- That is, unless the economies can create jobs and the absence of social benefits,” it notes. option to hold money in Kuwaiti Dinar and any receive such accreditation for the third con- Saharan Africa’s largest economy, is running at for their burgeoning, young population. “Women, migrants and other vulnerable groups other major currencies and can access other secutive year. The Bank also has to its credit more than 14 percent and climbing; in South “By 2035, sub-Saharan Africa will have more of workers who are excluded from other oppor- account-related services such as standing the distinction of being the only Bank in Africa, the second largest economy, it is over 27 working-age people than the rest of the world’s tunities have little choice but to take informal orders, loans and credit cards and much more. Kuwait to have won the JP Morgan Chase percent. For youth in both places, it is far more. regions combined,” the IMF wrote in a blog post low-quality jobs.” MENAT region supported by one of the largest Quality Recognition Award for twelve con- This may seem bad enough, but according to this week. “This growing workforce will have to regional branch networks. secutive years. International Monetary Fund calculations the be met with jobs.” This has major implications for Economic impact The Bank has continuously improved its Burgan Bank, a subsidiary of KIPCO sub-Saharan Africa region’s jobs travails are in the region’s economy, its security and wider For the economy, informal sector work can be performance over the years through an (Kuwait Projects Company), is a strongly posi- danger of reaching uncharted territory in less immigration patterns. both positive and negative for growth. In some expanded revenue structure, diversified fund- tioned regional Bank in the MENA region. than two decades. In the past, some of the jobs strain has been cases, for example, it represents entrepreneur- taken up by the so-called informal economy ship and start-up businesses. But a lot of it is far which is dominated by street vendors, house- from opportune for growth. The informal sector Ahli United Bank makes a customer’s dream hold workers and off-the-radar cash jobbers. tends to be low productivity work, partly Typically, these workers pay no tax and do because it attracts lower skilled workers. come true with KD 250,000 grand prize not come under regulation, but they do add to “In a country where the informal sector is a country’s wealth. The informal sector in sub- large, the rate of economic growth is reduced,” KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank recently conducted Makki, Huda A Majeed, Madinah Hamad, Saharan Africa was around 38 percent of gross the IMF said. its Al-Hassad Islamic account weekly draw, Muhammad, Hasan Isa Ebrahim, Zahid Haider, domestic product in 2010-14, according to the This would suggest that countries such as Kuwait’s leading Sharia-compliant rewards pro- Ehsan Ali Yousif, Mohd Muslem Ahmed. Ahli IMF. This represented a steady decline from Tanzania and Nigeria, where the informal econo- gram that offers a broad range of prizes to the United Bank added, “There are increased oppor- nearly 45 percent in 1991-99, possibly a reflec- my is 50 to 65 percent of GDP, will fare worse largest number of winners, yesterday. The tunities that await our current customers and tion of more formal growth in some parts of than others such as Mauritius, South Africa and account provides 26 weekly prizes that are those who are interested in opening an Al-Hassad Africa. But up to 90 percent of jobs outside Namibia, where it ranges from between 20 to 25 comprised of KD 25,000 as a grand prize and 25 25 other winners won prizes of KD 1,000 and Islamic account to benefit from the wide range of agriculture are still in the informal sector. It is percent. Africa is not alone, of course. Indeed at other prizes valued at KD 1,000 each. AUB also are as follows: Fatemah Abdulkareem Mousa, prizes and opportunities offered this year.” Al- not generally by desire. the moment the region where the informal sec- offers four quarterly prizes that are valued at Shreif Abdulhafeez Basheer, Ebtesam Ibrahim Hassad Islamic account’s customers in Kuwait The IMF found that a third of new entrepre - tor plays the biggest role is Latin America and KD 250,000 to each winner allowing them to Shahatah, Ali Mohd Kayed Kaydi , Ahmad Rashed and Bahrain are eligible to participate in the draw neurs in sub-Saharan Africa said they were doing the Caribbean. It also amounts to around 15 per- achieve their dreams of travelling, studying Al Wahaib, Hamed Ahmad Al-Awadhi, in line with the program’s terms and conditions what they were doing out of necessity. “Most cent of GDP in developed countries. abroad, or owning their dream home or car. Mohammad Al-Mousa, Mustafa Abdulredh Individual customers can open their accounts would prefer a job in the formal sector, but don’t But with the large working age population On this occasion Ahli United Bank announced, Hussan, Abdulrazaq Farhan Mubarak, with a minimum deposit of KD 100, qualifying have that option,” it said. about to explode, the countries of the region are “With this draw, we are adding 26 new winners Abdulraheem Yousef, Ahmad Mohammad Al- them to enter the draw. For every KD 50 deposit- The International Labor Organization goes facing a crunch. “Countries need to adopt a bal- and prizes to the Al-Hassad Islamic account khaled , Ali Hussain Mohammad, Mahmoud Jaber ed in the account, customers are given one further. “Some of the characteristic features of anced approach in the design of policies to grow whereby, the total number of winners annually will Al-Oqla, Mohammed Abdulla Kunhi, Mohd Ali Al chance to enter the quarterly draw. They must informal employment are lack of protection in the formal sector. This means focusing on ways include more than 1300. The weekly grand prize Amir, Abdulawahab Meaidh Al-Azmi, Khaled have held the minimum deposit requirement for the event of non-payment of wages, compulsory to increase the productivity of the informal sec- winner of KD 25,000 is Mohd Baqer Ghuloom. Rashed Al-Hajri , Saad Abu Abbass , Zainab Ali at least two weeks prior to the draw date. overtime or extra shifts, lay-offs without notice tor, while working to support the expansion of or compensation, unsafe working conditions formal businesses,” the IMF said. —Reuters

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Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.645 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Swiss Franc 316.020 Indian Rupee 0.004221 0.004909 Australian Dollar 240.230 Thai Bhat 10.080 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000018 0.000024 US Dollar Buying 301.550 Turkish Lira 86.055 ASIAN COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 0.002667 0.002847 Japanese Yen 2.759 GOLD Korean Won 0.000256 0.000271 Indian Rupees 4.746 BAHRAIN EXCHANGE COMPANY WLL 20 Gram 249.070 Malaysian Ringgit 0.067407 0.073407 Pakistani Rupees 2.870 10 Gram 127.450 Srilankan Rupees 1.971 Nepalese Rupee 0.002991 0.003161 5 Gram 64.570 CURRENCY BUY SELL Nepali Rupees 2.981 Europe Pakistan Rupee 0.002624 0.002914 Singapore Dollar 223.020 Philippine Peso 0.005894 0.006194 Hongkong Dollar 38.695 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd British Pound 0.386197 0.396197 Bangladesh Taka 3.737 Czech Korune 0.005562 0.017562 Singapore Dollar 0.216485 0.226485 Philippine Peso 5.988 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001598 0.002178 Rate for Transfr Selling Rate Danish Krone 0.043659 0.048659 Thai Baht 9.127 Taiwan 0.009886 0.010066 US Dollar 302.400 Euro 0. 349637 0.358637 Norwegian Krone 0.033856 0.039056 Thai Baht 0.008737 0.009287 GCC COUNTRIES Canadian Dollar 238.945 Saudi Riyal 80.787 Sterling Pound 394.050 Romanian Leu 0.077712 0.077712 Qatari Riyal 83.207 Euro 356.520 Slovakia 0.009023 0.019023 Arab Omani Riyal 786.772 Swiss Frank 294.450 Swedish Krona 0.032899 0.037899 Bahraini Dinar 0.796057 0.804557 Bahraini Dinar 804.440 Bahrain Dinar 802.065 Swiss Franc 0.306164 0.317164 Egyptian Pound 0.015566 0.021474 UAE Dirham 82.482 UAE Dirhams 82.725 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 ARAB COUNTRIES Qatari Riyals 83.945 Australasia Iraqi Dinar 0.000190 0.000250 Australian Dollar 0.230046 0.242046 Egyptian Pound - Cash 21.200 Saudi Riyals 81.535 Jordanian Dinar 0.422401 0.431401 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 16.972 Jordanian Dinar 426.430 New Zealand Dollar 0.214874 0.224374 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.216 Egyptian Pound 17.029 Lebanese Pound 0.000150 0.000250 Tunisian Dinar 127.210 Sri Lankan Rupees 1.973 America Jordanian Dinar 427.490 Moroccan Dirhams 0.020832 0.044832 Indian Rupees 4.744 Canadian Dollar 0.232975 0.241975 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.018 Omani Riyal 0.779944 0.785624 Syrian Lira 2.159 Pakistani Rupees 2.869 Georgina Lari 0.125021 0.125021 Morocco Dirham 32.414 Bangladesh Taka 3.738 US Dollars 0.298650 0.303070 Qatar Riyal 0.078868 0.083808 Philippines Pesso 5.970 US Dollars Mint 0.299150 0.303070 Saudi Riyal 0.079647 0.080947 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Cyprus pound 166.890 Syrian Pound 0.001283 0.001503 US Dollar Transfer 302.750 Japanese Yen 3.750 Asia Tunisian Dinar 0.121912 0.129912 Euro 356.940 Syrian Pound 1.590 Sterling Pound 395.540 Bangladesh Taka 0.003321 0.003905 Turkish Lira 0.080747 0.091047 Canadian dollar 239.710 Nepalese Rupees 2.974 Chinese Yuan 0.043717 0.047217 UAE Dirhams 0.080958 0.082658 Turkish lira 85.890 Malaysian Ringgit 71.400 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036652 0.039402 Yemeni Riyal 0.000984 0.001064 THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 BUSINESS US job openings at record high; market is tightening Productivity rises in Q2; labor costs soft WASHINGTON: US job openings jumped to a record high in June, outpacing hiring, the latest indication that companies are having trouble finding qualified workers. The monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS, released by the Labor Department on Tuesday also underscored labor market strength that will likely encourage the Federal Reserve to continue tightening mone- tary policy despite benign inflation and con- cerns about consumer spending. “Companies are running out of workers to hire to do the job or even train to do the work, BEIJING: People ride an escalator at an upscale shopping mall in Beijing on Tuesday. and this is a ticking time bomb for economic China’s trade growth weakened in July in a negative sign for growth in the world’s growth,” said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at second-largest economy and global demand. —AP MUFG in New York. “Today’s JOLTS data bring a September meeting balance sheet unwind announcement a little closer to reality.” JOLTS, is China factory gate inflation one of the job market metrics on Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s so-called dashboard. Economists expect misses expectations in July the US central bank will announce a plan to start reducing its $4.2 trillion portfolio of Treasury BEIJING: China’s factory price inflation and Steel Industry Association has said. bonds and mortgage-backed securities at its remained steady for the third consecutive China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main next policy meeting in September. month in July, the government said yester- gauge of retail inflation, rose 1.4 percent Tame inflation and worries about con- day, coming in slightly below expectations year-on-year last month, down from 1.5 sumer spending amid tepid wage growth and as experts warn of a further slowdown in the percent in June and also missing faltering motor vehicle sales, however, sug- world’s second-largest economy. The pro- Bloomberg’s forecast of 1.5 percent. gest the Fed will delay raising interest rates ducer price index (PPI) rose 5.5 percent year- Consumer price inflation has been “gen- again until December. It has increased bor- on-year, according to the National Bureau of erally stable”, NBS analyst Sheng Guoqing rowing costs twice this year. Statistics (NBS), the same as the previous said in a statement, adding that high tem- Job openings, a measure of labor demand, two months but missing the 5.6 percent peratures and heavy rains this summer increased by 461,000 to a seasonally adjusted gain forecast in a Bloomberg News survey. have supported vegetable and egg prices. 6.2 million. That was the highest level since the Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital “With policy tightening now weighing data series started in December 2000 and Economics warned the producer price on economic activity, underlying inflation pushed the job openings rate up two-tenths of gauge’s steadiness “appeared to be almost has already begun to decline,” Evans- a percentage point to a near one-year high of entirely due to the recent rally in domestic Pritchard said in a research note. 4.0 percent. BOSTON: Men work on a street in downtown Boston. The US Labor Department released sec- steel prices, which is unlikely to be sus- The inflation data came a day after the The monthly increase in job openings was ond quarter productivity data yesterday. —AP tained in our view”. China’s steel prices release of figures showing the rate of the largest since July 2015. The surge in job surged in July, which has helped lead world growth in China’s exports and imports also and we expect continued improvement in the a 5.4 percent rate in the January-March period. openings was almost broad-based. There were job market to keep upward pressure on wages,” steel market prices higher, the China Iron slowed significantly in July. — AFP Compared to the second quarter of 2016, unit 179,000 additional vacancies in the professional said Daniel Silver, an economist at JPMorgan in labor costs fell at a 0.2 percent rate, pointing to and business services industries. The health care New York. Other details of the JOLTS report were muted inflation. Coming on the heels of a recent and social assistance sector had 125,000 more mixed. About 3.1 million Americans voluntarily moderation in price pressures, the retreat in unit job openings and construction companies had quit their jobs in June, down from 3.2 million in labor costs may worry Federal Reserve officials an additional 62,000 unfilled positions. In June, May. As a result, the quits rate, which the Fed as they contemplate further monetary policy job openings were concentrated in the Midwest looks at as a measure of job market confidence, tightening. and West regions. dipped to 2.1 percent from 2.2 percent in May. Prices for US Treasuries were higher in mid- Layoffs rose 28,000 to 1.7 million in June, lift- morning trading while US stocks were lower. The Skills mismatch ing the layoffs rate one-tenth of a percentage dollar gained against a basket of currencies. The ratio of job openings to unemployment point to 1.2 percent. The government also revised productivity hit a 16-year high. Hiring was little changed at data going back to 2014, in line with recent 5.4 million in June, leaving the hiring rate steady Productivity revisions to gross domestic product figures. at 3.7 percent. The gap between job openings US worker productivity rose more than Those revisions showed productivity falling 0.1 and hiring points to a skills mismatch, which was expected in the second quarter as hours percent in 2016, the first drop since 1982. also corroborated by a separate report on increased at their fastest pace in 1-1/2 years, Productivity increased at an average annual Tuesday from the National Federation of keeping labor costs under control. The Labor rate of 1.2 percent from 2007 to 2016, below its Independent Business. Department said yesterday that nonfarm pro- long-term rate of 2.1 percent from 1947 to The NFIB survey showed job openings at a ductivity, which measures hourly output per 2016, indicating the economy’s potential rate 16-year high in July. Small businesses cited a lack worker, increased at a 0.9 percent annualized of growth has declined. rate in the April-June period. First-quarter pro- of skills as the main reason for the vacancies. Anemic productivity is bad news for Others also blamed “unreasonable” wage expec- ductivity was revised to show it edging up at a President Donald Trump who has pledged to tations, attitude, appearance as well as drug 0.1 percent pace instead of being unchanged as boost annual economic growth to 3.0 percent addiction for disqualification of job seekers. previously reported. through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and a Economists are optimistic that tightening Compared to the second quarter of 2016, rollback of regulation. “To reattain 3 percent real labor market conditions will spur faster wage productivity increased at a 1.2 percent rate, the GDP growth with the demographics the US is growth. Annual wage growth has struggled to strongest performance in two years. Economists break above 2.5 percent, contributing to infla- had forecast productivity increasing at a 0.7 per- facing, productivity growth will have to exceed KFH announces cards summer tion persistently running below the Fed’s 2 per- cent pace in the second quarter. With productivi- its long-run average growth rate of 2.1 percent, cent target. ty rising, unit labor costs, the price of labor per and we are far short of attaining such a pace,” campaign 8th draw winners “The JOLTS report continues what has been a single unit of output, increased at only a 0.6 per- said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ reasonably strong run for the labor market data, cent pace in the second quarter after jumping at Economics in New York. —Reuters KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) al value; thus achieving customer satisfac- announced 7 winners of the eighth draw of tion and boosting their confidence. The the new banking cards summer campaign campaign also aims at enhancing the themed “Get Back Double the Value of your bank’s presence especially that it domi- Purchases”. The campaign was launched in nates the largest market share in the field an attempt to encourage clients to use KFH of banking cards. credit, prepaid and debit cards while mak- KFH strives to continuously offer its ing purchases in Kuwait and overseas. clients new promotions and discounts in The winners are: Zeyad Alshalfan, Huda order to distinguish them among peers, not Hasan, Tayba Algharbali, Abdulrahman to mention to further bolster bank’s leading Alnesif, Mashan Alotaibi, Fahad Almansour position in the field of banking cards. and Yousef Altarawra. The campaign that KFH marketing campaigns play a signifi- lasts for 120 days gives KFH customers cant role in underlining KFH’s principles chances to enter draw to win double cash- that include boosting sales, and benefitting back up to KD 2000 daily. KFH Credit and clients and merchants. It is worth noting Prepaid cards used for domestic and interna- that KFH has won several awards in the tional purchases and KFH Debit cards used field of banking cards which reiterates its for international purchases are eligible for success and efficiency in banking cards the draw. For every KD 1 spent locally earns 1 market. KFH enjoys high confidence and chance and every KD 1 spent internationally leadership in the market in addition to high earn 3 chances to enter the daily draw. quality products which have enabled it to This campaign is part of KFH efforts to achieve growth in cards market and reward its clients and grant them addition- increase the number of customers. Rice to riches: Vietnam shrimp farmers fish for fortunes SOC TRANG , Vietnam: With a flashy gold Crisis is looming watch and a chunky matching ring, Tang But environmentalists warn that the Van Cuol looks a far cry from the average bounty from intensive shrimp farming Vietnamese farmer as he slings back a may be short-lived. Today pollution and shot of rice wine and boasts about his disease frequently lay waste to crus- KUWAIT: Khaled Al-Mutawa, General Manager - International Banking and Investments, and Mrs. Mona Mansour, General Manager -Customer projected earnings. After years scratching tacean harvests. But a wider crisis is Services Delivery accepting the award from Citibank representatives. a living growing rice and onions or farm- looming caused by the obliteration of ing ducks, the 54-year-old says his life was mangrove forests to make way for farms, transformed in 2000 — by shrimp. exposing the area to lashings from Gulf Bank receives ‘Straight Through The Mekong Delta, long renowned as storms and further rises in sea-level the “rice bowl of Vietnam”, is now also home linked to climate change. “This is not sus- to a multi-billion-dollar shrimp industry tainable,” said Andrew Wyatt, Mekong Processing Excellence’ award 2016 and burgeoning numbers of farmers are Delta Program Manager at the building fortunes from the small crus- International Union for Conservation of KUWAIT: Gulf Bank yesterday Service Delivery, Maab Al-Qassem taceans. “Raising shrimp can bring so much Nature (IUCN). The IUCN is encouraging announced it has been awarded - Executive Manager - income, nothing can compare,” Cuol says farmers to preserve mangroves and stop the prestigious ‘Straight Through International Banking & over lunch with friends, a healthy spread of using harmful chemicals so their shrimp Processing Excellence’ Award 2016 Investments; and Nouria AlBader - rice, salad, pork and-of course shrimp. This can be certified as organic, earning a five from Citibank for the Bank’s STP Deputy General Manager - Central year he expects to make one billion dong, to 10 percent premium in the process. Yet Rate of 99.8 percent for Treasury Operations. It was presented by a or around $44,000 — an enormous sum in shrimp farmers say the financial rewards and commercial payments. This is team of Citibank representatives the delta, where rice farmers make around are too great to ignore. the Sixth consecutive year that that included Mohamed A Al- $100 a month. The shrimp bonanza began Just like his father and grandfather, Gulf Bank receives this award. Hammadi - Vice President - in the 1990s when rising sea-levels seeped Tang Van Tuoi struggled as a rice farmer. Straight Through Processing Correspondent Banking Group saltwater into the Mekong Delta. He slept under a roof fashioned from (STP) is the full automation of a Middle East & Public Sector - It has surged in parallel with demand coconut palms, earning just enough to payment transactions by which Treasury and Trade Solutions, Emre from the US and European Union. Savvy support his family. But when saltwater financial institutions receive and Umut -Director - Head of F.I. & locals were swift to spot the changing started creeping into his rice fields-he saw process a payment by an electron- Correspondent Banking Sales - conditions were ripe for shrimp farming. ic system without the requirement MENAPT, Omar Kopti - Vice The wealth has transformed Cuol’s part an opportunity and started harvesting shrimp. “Now everything is developed, we of any manual intervention. This President - Corporate & invest- of Soc Trang province: motorbikes have automated process increases the ment Bank and Mohannad Barakat replaced bicycles on newly-paved roads have vehicles, roads, things have changed efficiency and eliminates any delay - Vice President - Treasury & Trade dotted with multi-storey concrete homes massively,” he told AFP from his polished in execution of payments. Solutions Head. unimaginable just a generation ago. living room, where a flatscreen TV hangs The award was received by Receiving the award on behalf Cuol owns several motorbikes, funded over a wood furniture set. Even in a bad Khaled Al-Mutawa - General of the Bank, Al-Mutawa said: “We his daughter’s wedding and claims an year, he can earn more than he did as a impressive collection of antiques “worth rice farmer. In a good year he can rake in Manager - International Banking are honored to receive this award tion as Citibank. Receiving this dent banks and it reinforces our hundreds of millions of dong.” upwards of $40,000. — AFP and Investments; Mona Mansour - and proud to be recognized by award is acknowledgment for reputation as a market leader in General Manager - Customer such a renowned financial institu- being one of the top correspon- operations and service quality.” THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 BUSINESS Trump’s ‘fire and fury’ warning hits stocks

LONDON: President Donald Trump’s warning “The typical text book trade is that investors ening after a car rammed a group of soldiers in Hang Seng fell 0.4 percent. Instead, Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at North Korea faced “fire and fury” and rush for safe havens.” Trump’s remarks on Paris, injuring six, in what officials said was a sus- investors turned to assets that tend to ben- Saxo Bank. “But looking ahead unless we Pyongyang’s threat of possible retaliation drove Tuesday that North Korea would face “fire and pected terrorist attack. France’s CAC dropped 1.6 efit in times of geopolitical and financial start to see a conflict break out or a major investors out of stocks yesterday and into the fury like the world has never seen” pushed Wall percent and Germany’s DAX fell 1.3 percent. stress. The Japanese yen strengthened by stock market correction, (gold) is capped at yen, Swiss franc, gold and government debt. US Street lower on Tuesday and drove up the VIX 0.5 percent to around 109.70 per dollar. 1,295 (although) the upside at moment is stock index futures fell, with the S&P 500 indicat- “fear gauge” of expected volatility on the S&P Asia stocks dip Japan is the world’s biggest creditor coun- the favored direction.” ed to open down 0.4 percent after share prices 500 higher. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 share index closed down try and there is an assumption investors Oil prices rose before a report expected fell in Europe and Asia. The VIX rose further yesterday, rising as far as 1.3 percent at its lowest since June 1 as the there will repatriate funds in a crisis. to show US crude stocks fell for a sixth The Swiss franc, by contrast, was on track for 12.11, its highest in almost a month. strong yen hit exporters, while South Korea’s The Swiss franc reversed a two-week los- week. Bent crude, the global benchmark, its biggest single-day rise against the euro in A spokesman for the Korean People’s Army KOSPI index fell 1.1 percent to seven-week lows. ing streak and gained 1.1 percent to as firm rose 19 cents to $52.33 a barrel. more than 2 1/2 years. “Trump’s comments said in a statement on Wednesday it was “care- South Korea’s won currency dropped 0.9 percent as 0.9611 per dollar. The Swiss currency was Highly-rated government bond yields about North Korea have created nervousness fully examining” plans for a missile attack on the against the dollar to its lowest close since July 13. also on track for its biggest daily gain fell yesterday as tensions between North and the fear is if the President really means what US Pacific territory of Guam, which has a large MSCI’s main index of Asia-Pacific shares, against the euro since the Swiss National Korea and the United States firmed he said: “fire and fury”,” said Naeem Aslam, chief US military base. In Europe, the pan-continental excluding Japan, was last down 0.6 percent. Bank removed its cap on the currency in investor demand for so-called ‘safe haven’ market analyst at Think Markets in London. STOXX 600 index fell 0.9 percent, with falls deep- Chinese blue chips closed flat but Hong Kong’s January 2015. It was last up 1.2 percent at assets. The escalation in rhetoric jarred 1.1305 per euro. “Heightened geopolitical financial markets as investors sheltered risks overnight have seen the markets flip their cash in assets that tend to perform in from risk-on to risk-off and we have to wait times of stress. German and US govern- and see how long this move runs before ment bonds, alongside gold and the adding some positions,” said Viraj Patel, an Japanese and Swiss currencies, were the FX strategist at ING in London. main beneficiaries. The dollar index, which measures the US Yields on lower-rated euro zone bonds currency against a basket of major peers, in Portugal , Spain and Italy were flat to slipped 0.1 percent as US Treasury yields slightly higher on the day. Analysts said fell. The euro dipped 0.1 percent to $1.1733 demand should remain firm for a sale of 4 but the single European currency has been billion euros of five-year German bonds at slipping this week against the dollar, hav- auction. “Bunds appear stuck in their tight ing hit a more than 2 1/2-year high of ranges below 0.5 percent for now and $1.1892 on Aug. 2. should be supported by geopolitics this Yields on core government debt fell. morning,” Commerzbank said in a note. Ten-year US yields dropped 4.3 basis points There was little market reaction to to 2.24 percent and German equivalents inflation data from China, the world’s sec- fell 3 bps to 0.43 percent, a six-week low. ond largest economy, which showed Gold rose 0.6 percent to $1,268 an prices holding steady in July in a positive ounce. “The market hates uncertainty and sign for industrial output and profits for that’s certainly what we have now,” said the third quarter.—Reuters THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 BUSINESS Warba Bank acquires ‘Ultris’ beach apartments in Virginia Deal reinforces its real estate investment program in US KUWAIT: Warba bank continues to partner, Croatan Investments that has line with the Bank’s vigorous interna- committed to make risk mitigated reinforce its strategy which primarily local knowledge and a long track tional real estate investment program investments strictly following invest- aims to position the Bank as the Islamic record in the Hampton Roads area. and fulfils our strategy aiming to ment policies and procedures with the corporate and investment banking The Ultris at Banyan Grove is a Class income diversification and growth of target of generating long term secured champion in Kuwait while expanding A, multifamily community comprising the Bank’s investment portfolio.” returns for the Bank and its investors”. its international real-estate investment 13 buildings with 288 units. Built in Al-Ghanem further elaborated that Previously this year, Warba bank has program. Within this context, the bank 2003, this apartment community the new acquired residential complex acquired, in collaboration with Bentall announced that it has invested $17.34 boasts spacious floor plans and a full is located in a market with low volatili- Kennedy, the ManpowerGroup million in acquiring a multi-family spectrum of community amenities. ty and strong demand for rental hous- Headquarters, a 280,000-square foot apartment complex “Ultris” at Banyan Centrally located in Virginia Beach, ing. It is expected to provide steady office building in Milwaukee, Grove located in Virginia Beach-USA. Ultris at Banyan Grove provides con- income returns throughout the invest- Wisconsin. This marks the second investment in venient access to the Oceanfront area ment period. He added: “Warba Bank Previously this year, Warba bank has 2017 made by Warba Bank and also and many of the employment centers aims to expand its real-estate portfolio launched its international real estate sourced by its strategic partner Bentall throughout Hampton Roads. in the USA promising markets and is investment’s program by acquiring a Kennedy, one of the leading real estate About the bank’s new partnership currently studying a number of oppor- new KIA motors facility in UK. It’s consultancy firms assigned by Warba with Bentall Kennedy, Shaheen Hamad tunities guaranteed to provide reward- marked with its strategic location in Bank as its real estate consultant and Al-Ghanem, Warba Bank’s CEO said: ing income and complies with the the Industrial Keln Lanek, only a mile co-investor for the Bank’s commercial “Our cooperation with Bentall Kennedy Bank’s prime policy for investment and and a half from Amenigham which is real estate investments in USA. The has been fruitful and this remarkable risk criteria”. renown to have the biggest seaports in propriety has been acquired in a joint acquisition is a continuation of a long- Al-Ghanem ended: “Investment the United Kingdome along with Shaheen Al-Ghanem venture with a locally based operating term cooperation between us. It is in- Banking Group at Warba Bank is fully Grimbsy. Huawei Consumer Business Qatar Airways launches Group announces 2017 H1 business results inaugural flight to Sohar

DUBAI: Huawei Consumer Business Group yesterday announced its 2017 Airline’s third destination in the Sultanate of Oman first half year financial results: sales rev- enue for the first six months of 2017 DOHA: The first Qatar Airways non- increased by 36.2 percent year-on-year stop flight from Doha to Sohar touched to CNY105.4 billion. Smartphone ship- down yesterday at Sohar Airport, inau- ments also rose to 73.01million, a year- gurating the award-winning airline’s newest destination in the Middle East, on-year increase of 20.6 percent. and its third destination in the Richard Yu, chief executive officer Sultanate of Oman. of Huawei’s Consumer Business Qatar Airways Chief Commercial Group, said, “Our Consumer Business Officer, Ehab Amin, who travelled on Group continued to deliver extraordi- board the inaugural flight, was greeted nary growth, beating the industry by His Excellency Ali bin Fahd Al-Hajri, average and penetrating high-end Ambassador of Qatar in Oman, and offi- markets around the globe. This ongo- cials from Oman Airports Management ing growth is testament to the Company (OAMC), including Chief strength of the Huawei brand and the Operations Officer, David Wilson; momentum we’ve built through deliv- General Manager Commercial ering premium, market-redefining Operations, Sheikh Samer Ahmed Al devices that resonate with today’s dis- Nabhani; General Manager Operations, cerning consumers.” Ali Zaid Al-Balushi; General Manager Information & Communication In Q1 2017, Huawei’s market share Technology, Dr Moaman Mohammed rose to 9.8 percent of the global smart- Al-Busaidi and government officials of phone market, according to industry Al-Batinah Governorate. analysts IDC. This growth was driven by Qatar Airways Group Chief a significant increase in sales of mid- Executive Akbar Al-Baker said: “We are range and high-end smartphones in key delighted to add Sohar to our global geographies. In Greater China, Huawei route network. We launched services to laid claim to 22.1 percent of the market the Sultanate of Oman nearly 17 years where shipments increased by 24 per- ago, and ever since, we have added cent year-over-year. Huawei also saw additional frequencies on a yearly basis rapid growth in smartphone shipment to accommodate demand for increased across Europe, reporting 18 percent capacity to this charming country, year-over-year growth with particularly known for its traditional culture and the robust performance in Central and warmth of the Omani people. Now pas- Eastern and Nordic Europe. The Huawei sengers from Sohar will have the opportunity to experience our award- Consumer Business Group also experi- winning service, connecting them to a enced major breakthroughs in Asia- wide variety of popular summer holi- Pacific markets including Thailand, day destinations.” Malaysia, Japan and South Korea. Russia Sohar is a city known both for its tra- also grew strongly. Meanwhile, accord- ditional Omani culture and beautiful Sohar, which plays a significant role in Oman by launching flights to the capi- Mai, Thailand; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; San ing to the research of GfK and Sino, beaches. As the Sultanate of Oman’s the Sultanate of Oman’s business mod- tal, Muscat in 2000. In 2013, Salalah was Francisco, US; and Santiago, Chile, to Huawei’s Honor brand consecutively largest city in the governorate of el, and is home to many successful proj- added to the airline’s growing network name a few. topped both the Internet smartphone Northern Al-Batinah and the country’s ects implemented by the Omani as the second destination in the Qatar Airways has received a num- sales volume and sales revenue in China main shipping hub, this vibrant coastal Government”. Sultanate of Oman. The award-winning ber of accolades this year, including from January to May, 2017. city offers a range of tourist attractions Sheikh Aiman bin Ahmed Al- airline currently operates five daily Airline of the Year by the prestigious This year on year growth was reflect- and activities, in particular water sports Hosni added: “The new direct route flights between Doha and Muscat, and 2017 Skytrax World Airline Awards, ed in Huawei’s rise as a globally recog- such as diving, snorkelling and kite between Doha and Sohar operated three daily return flights on the Doha- which was held at the Paris Air Show. nized premium brand. In 2017, Huawei boarding. Shoppers will not want to by Qatar Airways is a prestigious Salalah route. This is the fourth time that Qatar was named number 49 on BrandZ’s Top miss the city’s souq, which offers tradi- addition to the operations of Sohar The new route to Sohar will be Airways has been given this global tional Omani handicrafts as well as 100 Most Valuable Global Brands, num- Airport. We will ensure that all pas- served by an Airbus A320 aircraft, fea- recognition as the world’s best airline. leather goods, ceramics, perfumes, sengers have a seamless and conven- turing 12 seats in Business Class and In addition to being voted Best Airline ber 88 in Forbes World’s Most Valuable herbs and honey. Brands and number 40 on the Brand ient travel experience”. 132 seats in Economy Class. by travellers from around the world, Oman Airports Management The airline will operate three weekly The 2017 Airline of the Year, as Qatar’s national carrier also won a raft Finance Global 500 Most Valuable Company, Chief Executive Officer, flights between Doha and Sohar, bring- awarded by Skytrax, has a host of excit- of other major awards at the ceremony, Brands lists. Sheikh Aiman bin Ahmed Al-Hosni said: ing the total capacity across Oman to ing new destinations planned for the including Best Airline in the Middle “Huawei devices have resonated with “We are delighted to welcome Qatar 59 weekly flights. Qatar Airways first remainder of this year and 2018, East, World’s Best Business Class and global audiences because of our clear Airways as a new strategic partner in began service to the Sultanate of including Canberra, Australia; Chiang World’s Best First Class Airline Lounge. commitment to quality, experience and innovation,” continued Yu. “With a robust consumer devices ecosystem Mezzan Holding reports H1 2017 financial results that includes critically acclaimed smart- phones, tablets, wearables and now PCs, KUWAIT: Mezzan Holding KSC, one of the largest was largely driven by our food manufacturing consumers know that they can trust manufacturers and distributors of food, beverage, divisions and the continued success of Danone Huawei to deliver the kind of experi- FMCG and pharmaceutical products in the Gulf, yes- products in our trading division. ence they’re looking for in a premium terday announced the company’s financial results Catering: H1 Revenue increased by 13.2 per- device.” for Q2 2017. The company reported KD50.3 million cent driven by contracts won in Q3 2016. As Huawei’s brand presence grows, in Q2 revenue, and a Q2 net profit of KD2.0 million. Services: H1 Revenue declined by 17.7 per- so too will its sales strategy. Huawei is The quarter’s results bring Mezzan Holding’s H1 rev- cent due to the temporary client-side disruption set to grow its expansive retail network, enue to KD107.8 million, down slightly by 0.6 per- of business in Afghanistan and nature of the reaching 56,000 retail stores worldwide cent from the same period last year, and bring H1 inconsistent tender flow resulting in periodic rev- by the end of 2017 - an increase from net profit to KD7.3 million, down 26.7 percent from enue fluctuations. 35,000 in May 2016. These stores reflect the same period last year. Non-Food Business Line: The Non-Food the high-end, premium image that Mezzan Holding Executive Vice Chairman Business Line accounted for 27.3 percent of Group Huawei has cultivated around the Mohammed Jassim Al-Wazzan said, “We are pleased Revenue and comprises FMCG and world. to announce to our shareholders that this is our Pharmaceuticals (24.7 percent of Group Revenue) Looking ahead, Huawei expects to ninth quarter of consecutive profitability since our and Industrials (2.6 percent of Group Revenue). spur continued growth as the company listing on Boursa Kuwait and despite the challeng- Revenue reached KD29.4 million, a decrease of 4.7 pushes its devices further through inno- ing dynamic of our region. Though we had a drop in Garrett Walsh percent compared with the same period in 2016. vations in artificial intelligence and profitability due to these factors, our balance sheet H1’17: KD107.8 million, down 0.6% compared to FMCG and Pharmaceuticals: H1 Revenue machine learning that will drive the new and cash positions continue to be strong and ahead H1 2016 decreased by 4.5 percent due to the continued “smart era” forward. The Consumer of our regional peers while our diversified business EBITDA: slowdown in the tenders offered by the Ministry of Health, however the difference is gradually Business Group is committing to deliv- model, which is very unique to Mezzan, has proven Q2’17: KD4.0 million, down 40.6% compared to once again to be our biggest asset.” being compensated by other areas in our FMCG ering intelligent devices that anticipate Q2 2016 Mezzan Holding CEO Garrett Walsh said, “Q2 business. users’ needs and fit more organically H1’17: KD11.3 million, a decrease of 18.5% com- proved to be a quarter that had both opportuni- Industrials: Revenue decreased by 6.9 percent into the way people work and live. pared to H1 2016 ties and some internal and external challenges driven by slowdown in the plastics manufacturing Across its 15 global research centers Net profit: that were a drag on our profitability. Some of the business. and 36 joint innovation centers, Huawei Q2’17: KD2.0 million, down 58.1%, compared challenges were addressed while others were Regional Business Highlights: is working on new technologies includ- to Q2 2016 beyond our control or influence. With that said, H1’17: KD7.3 million, a decrease of 26.7% com- In Kuwait: H1 Revenue dropped by 1.2 per- ing sensors, data management and the defensive nature of our business model cent, as the strong start from the beginning of advances to its Kirin chipset that are pared to H1 2016 helped us maintain our revenue level and our H1 Financial Performance Review: the year was curbed by a soft Ramadan shopping designed to bring this type of function- continued profitability. Looking forward, we are period. ality to the marketplace. Huawei is also Food Business Line: The Food Business Line working to offset external challenges by maximiz- accounted for 72.7 percent of Group Revenue and In UAE: H1 Revenue down by 5.0 percent, complementing its own innovation by ing internal opportunities. New synergies are being undermined by softer regional exports due to collaborating with industry-leading comprises of Manufacturing and Distribution identified in logistics to lessen the impact of similar (52.8 percent), Catering (13.3 percent) and regional circumstances. companies such as Leica, Dolby, situations in the quarters to come and to return to In Qatar: H1 Revenue grew by 2.3 percent. Microsoft, Intel and Google. Services (6.6 percent). Revenue reached KD78.3 growing our profitability.” million, an increase of 1.2 percent compared with In KSA: H1 Revenue grew by 921.8 percent as Through these efforts, Huawei will Financial Highlights Mezzan continues to focus on gaining a foothold continue to delight customers, chal- the same period in 2016. Revenue: Manufacturing and Distribution: H1 in the region’s largest consumer market. lenge the industry, and build a Better Q2’17: KD50.3 million, down 4.8%, compared to In Jordan: H1 Revenue decreased by 39.6 per- Connected World. Revenue increased by 1.4 percent, with broad Q2 2016 based growth across our key operating units. This cent due to challenges to tender-driven business. technology THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 From zero-day exploits to rampant ransomware

DUBAI: The second quarter of 2017 saw sophisti- The allegedly nation-state backed WannaCry and related malware families were identified. The Black Energy. “We have long maintained the impor- cated threat actors unleash a wealth of new and ExPetr destructive epidemics, whose victims includ- WannaCry attack on 12 May and the ExPetr attack tance of truly global threat intelligence to aid enhanced malicious tools, including three zero-day ed many companies and organization across the on 27 June. While very different in nature and tar- defenders of sensitive and critical networks. We exploits and two unprecedented attacks: WannaCry globe, became the first but most likely not the last gets, both were surprisingly ineffective as ‘ran- continue to witness the development of overzeal- and ExPetr. Expert analysis of the last two suggests example of the new, dangerous trend. somware’. For example, in the case ofWannaCry, ous attackers with no regard for the health of the the code may have escaped into the wild before it itsrapid global spread and high profileput a spot- Internet and those in vital institutions and business- was fully ready, anunusual situation forwell- Highlights in Q2, 2017 include: light on the attackers’ Bitcoin ransom account and es who rely on it on a daily basis. As cyberespi- resourced attackers. These and other trends are cov- Three Windows zero-day exploits being used in- made it hard for them to cash out. This suggests onage, sabotage, and crime run rampant, it’s all the ered in Kaspersky Lab’s latest quarterly threat intelli- the-wild by the Russian-speaking Sofacy and Turla that the real aim of the WannaCry attack was data more important for defenders to band together and gence summary. threat actors. Sofacy, also known as APT28 or destruction.Kaspersky Lab’s experts discovered fur- share cutting-edge knowledge to better defends The months from April to end June witnessed- FancyBear, deployed the exploits against a range of ther ties between the Lazarus group and against all threats,” said Juan Andres Guerrero- significant developments in targeted attacks by, European targets, including governmental and WannaCry. The pattern of destructive malware dis- Saade, Senior Security Researcher, Global Research among others, Russian-, English-, Korean-, and political organizations. The threat actor was also guised as ransomware showed itself again in the and Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab. Chinese-speaking threat actors. These develop- observed trying out some experimental tools, most ExPetr attack. The Q2 APT Trends report summarizes the find- ments havefar-reaching implications for business notably against a French political party member in ExPetr, targeting organizations in the Ukraine, ings of Kaspersky Lab’s subscriber-only threat intel- IT security: sophisticated malicious activity is hap- advance of the French national elections. Russia and elsewhere in Europe also appeared to be ligence reports. During the second quarter of 2017, pening continuously almost everywhere in the Gray Lambert - Kaspersky Lab has analyzedthe- ransomware but turned out to be purely destruc- Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Tam world, increasing the risk of companies and non- most advanced toolkit to date for the Lamberts tive. The motive behind the ExPetr attacks remains a created 23 private reports for subscribers, with commercial organizationsbecoming collateral group, a highly sophisticated and complex, mystery. Kaspersky Lab’s experts have established a Indicators of Compromise (IOC) data and YARA rules damage in cyber warfare. English-speaking cyberespionage family. Two new low confidence link to the threat actor known as to assist in forensics and malware-hunting. Disney to launch streaming services for movies, live sports

NEW YORK: With new streaming services in the Kingdom’s own app. That will include “Toy Story the US as well, taking advantage of Disney’s works, Disney is trying to set itself up for a future 4” and the sequel to the huge hit “Frozen.” Older global name recognition. that’s largely been framed by Netflix: Providing movies will be there too, as well as shows from the stuff you want to watch, when you want to the TV channels Disney Channel, Disney Junior Sports watch it. The Magic Kingdom is launching its and Disney XD, and original TV and films. That Disney had already said it would be launch- own streaming service for its central Disney and could be hugely attractive for families with ing a streaming ESPN service. It’s not meant to Pixar brands and another for live sports. That young children in the US. compete with the company’s TV channels. The would allow it to bypass the cable companies it Disney is ending an exclusive earlier movie sports service is coming in early 2018, a little lat- relies on - and Netflix - to charge consumers deal with Netflix, and the streaming giant’s er than previously announced, and will air base- directly for access to its popular movies and shares tumbled in after-hours trading. Netflix ball, hockey and soccer games, tennis matches sporting events. today has grown into an entertainment jugger- and college sports through ESPN’s popular “They’re bringing the future forward. What naut in its own right, however, as it focuses more mobile app. Notably, ESPN will not be streaming they talked about were things that looked on its own exclusive programming. Netflix pro football or basketball, at least initially. inevitable, at some point,” said Pivotal Research already seemed to be bracing for the potential Customers will also be able to buy fuller stream- Group analyst Brian Weiser. What’s less clear is if loss of the Disney movie rights earlier this week ing packages from the baseball, hockey and soc- Disney will be able to make big bucks from it, he when it announced its first-ever acquisition - the cer leagues, and watch them on the ESPN app. said. This is important as the decline in cable purchase of Millarworld , a comic book publish- “Ultimately, we envision this will become a dynamic sports marketplace that will grow and Japan gives world-beating be increasingly customizable, allowing sports fans to pick and choose content that reflects their personal interests,” Iger said on a confer- fidget spinner a whirl ence call with analysts. Disney will have to be FUJISAWA: One company in perfection- to the test inside AFP’s Tokyo bureau, the careful that it doesn’t transfer too much sports ism-obsessed Japan is claiming it has company’s wheel-shaped Saturn Spinner programming from its TV channels to the app. developed a fidget spinner that whirls whirled for 13 minutes and 35 seconds- Getting the balance wrong could upset cable longer than any rival on the market — 12 although it took a few tries. companies and weigh on the price they pay minutes and counting. Most fidget spin- The secret is all in the design, Ishii says. Disney for ESPN, Weiser said. ners, the must-have toy for 2017, can only The gadget, built at a pristine factory near rotate on their own for a few minutes at Tokyo, has a heavy brass frame and a light The back end most. But a subsidiary of precision machin- aluminum ball bearing to increase centrifu- To roll out its streaming services, The Walt ery maker NSK set its sights on utilizing the gal force. But they don’t come cheap at Disney Co. will take majority control of BAMTech, company’s ball bearings, used in space 17,280 yen ($157) apiece, making them the a streaming arm of Major League Baseball spun satellites and computer disks, to make the preserve of only the most eager and cash- off last year from Baseball Advanced Media, for Rolls Royce of fidget spinners. rich fidgeters. $1.58 billion. When the deal closes, Disney will The gadget-billed as a stress reliever but Most spinners cost around $12 or less. own 75 percent of BAM Tech, up from the 33 banned in some schools as a distraction- Ishii hopes the pricey gadget will stimulate percent stake it acquired for $1 billion as part of has a ball bearing in the centre and is interest in the often overlooked world of an agreement announced last year. The acquisi- designed to effortlessly spin with the flick ball bearings.”Hundreds of bearings are tion and the new services will be “an entirely of a finger. “We’re confident that ours is the found in products all around us, but most new growth strategy” for Disney, Iger said. longest spinner around,” said Toshikazu people don’t see them or pay much atten- The new streaming services will likely “accel- Ishii, president of NSK Micro Precision. Put tion to them,” he said.—AFP erate the erosion” of Disney’s TV networks, espe- cially if other major cable networks make similar moves, said Moody’s analyst Neil Begley. But Iger argues that BAMTech gives Disney “optionality” if NEW YORK: In this photo, The Walt Disney Co. logo appears on a screen above the floor of the the cable ecosystem changes further, Iger said New York Stock Exchange.—AP on a conference call with analysts Tuesday. If households and the shift to smaller, cheaper ing company that will develop films and kids there’s greater “erosion” - say, if more people bundles pressures the profitability of Disney’s shows based on its portfolio of character. drop cable bundles or choose cheaper bundles cable networks. Fewer subscribers and fewer Disney might bring more of its properties - without key Disney channels - the company has viewers mean less money. In the nine months particularly its Marvel superheroes and the Star more ways to get its entertainment directly to through July 1, cable networks’ operating Wars franchise - under its wing, and could even customers, Iger said. income fell 13 percent from the year before, to offer them as separate streaming services. CEO He said there are no current plans to sell the $4.12 billion. Robert Iger said Disney is considering whether Disney or ESPN TV channels directly to cus- it should continue licensing Marvel and Star tomers on the apps. But having a direct relation- Kid stuff Wars movies to outside services like Netflix, ship with customers tells Disney exactly what Starting in 2019, the only subscription move them into the Disney app or develop they’re watching, giving it powerful tools and streaming service with new animated and live- individual services for them. The Disney service information that could help feed decision-mak- action Disney and Pixar movies will be the Magic will be available in “multiple markets” outside ing and, on the sports side, sell advertising.—AP Take down: Hackers looking to shut down factories for pay DURHAM: The malware entered the North plant’s computer network. The plant was hit Department of Homeland Security incident Carolina transmission plant’s computer net- again in April, this time by different crooks response data. The numbers may be imprecise work via email last August, just as the criminals using new malware designed to hold data or because companies in key industries often French start-up takes off wanted, spreading like a virus and threatening devices hostage to force a ransom payment, don’t report attacks for fear of diminished pub- to lock up the production line until the compa- Peterson said. The virus was contained before lic perception. But attacks demanding ransom with flight-sharing app ny paid a ransom. AW North Carolina stood to affecting production, and no ransom was paid against all US institutions are spiraling higher. lose $270,000 in revenue, plus wages for idled to either group, he said. Manufacturers, gov- LONDON: A French start-up is reaching for France.” After the technical checks have employees, for every hour the factory wasn’t ernment and financial firms are now the top Emerging threat the skies with a flight-sharing app, match- been meticulously carried out, Pemmiredy shipping its crucial auto parts to nine Toyota targets globally for illicit intrusions by crimi- The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center ing pilots with passengers looking for a and his passenger board the small aircraft car and truck plants across North America, said nals, foreign espionage agencies and others up received 2,673 ransomware reports in the year low-cost way to take off in a private aircraft. which is owned by a flying club. The duo John Peterson, the plant’s information technol- to no good, according to a report this spring by ending last September nearly double from “It’s a great way to get on planes. It’s quite a return an hour later after their flight over ogy manager. NTT Security. A survey of nearly 3,000 corpo- 2014. While manufacturers are increasingly prey unique experience. It’s something new,” the city, both smiling. The company is just one of a growing num- rate cybersecurity executives in 13 countries to these cyber-stickups, it may just be because says Adam Nicholas, 27, at an airfield close ber being hit by cyber-criminals looking for a last year by Cisco Systems Inc. found about one criminals are playing the odds and striking as to London. He is readying for his second Leisure and discovery payday. While online thieves have long targeted out of four manufacturing organizations many enterprises of all types as they can across trip with Wingly, a French firm connecting Adopting a low-cost approach, Wingly banks for digital holdups, today’s just-in-time reported cyberattacks that cost them money in a targeted region, said John Miller, who heads a passengers and pilots for short flights, and co-founder Emeric de Waziers says he manufacturing sector is climbing toward the the previous 12 months. team at cybersecurity firm FireEye that tracks the undisputed market leader in Europe wants to “demonstrate that private aviation top of hackers’ hit lists. Production lines that Since 2015, US manufacturers considered money-driven online threats. Attackers “aren’t with a community of more than 80,000 is accessible” and should not be restricted integrate computer-imaging, barcode scanners “critical” to the economy and to normal mod- necessarily going after manufacturing to the members. to a privileged few. Himself a pilot, Waziers and measuring tolerances to a hair’s width at ern life, like makers of autos and aviation parts, exclusion of other sectors or with a preference In Nicholas’ first experience he took his explains that the flight-sharing model multiple points are more vulnerable to malevo- have been the main targets of cyberattacks - above other sectors. It’s more that, ‘OK, we’re girlfriend on a surprise day trip to Le “allows you to fly cheaper and enjoy this lent outsiders. “These people who try to hack outstripping energy, communications and oth- going to try to infect everybody in this country Touquet, across the Channel in France. “We passion without money being an obstacle”. into your network know you have a set sched- er critical infrastructure, according to that we can,’” Miller said. —AP flew there in the morning, had some lunch, Rather than compete with commercial air- ule. And they know hours are meaningful to had some wine and then flew back again in lines or other modes of transport, he what you’re doing,” Peterson said in an interview. the evening,” he says. This time the Londoner explains the focus is on “leisure and discov- “There’s only a day and a half of inventory in will be flown by pilot Somasekhara ery” through picking destinations which the entire supply chain. And so if we don’t Pemmiredy, 34, above the British capital are usually hard to reach. make our product in time, that means Toyota aboard a Cessna 172 aircraft. Pemmiredy has Wingly flights only cover short distances doesn’t make their product in time, which clocked up more than 290 hours since gain- and, given the size of the aircraft used, can means they don’t have a car to sell on the lot ing his pilot’s license in 2011. be cancelled at short-notice due to poor that next day. It’s that tight.” He said that cre- Working in security at a London airport weather conditions. The London to Le ates pressure on manufacturers to make the during the evenings, he flies for Wingly in Touquet route is among the most popular- criminals go away by paying the sums the daytime as a way to add more flight costing around £100 ($133, 112 euros) per demanded. “They may not know what that hours which are vital to achieving his ambi- person each way-along with Paris to French number is, but they know it’s not zero. So what tion of working for an airline. Pemmiredy islands Belle Ile or Ile d’Yeu. Rather than be is that number? Where do you flinch?” describes the set-up as a “win-win situa- likened to car service Uber, Waziers prefers tion”, as he prepares an eager Nicholas with to be the “BlaBlaCar of the skies” because Hackers’ lock the details of the altitude, speed and flight Wingly allows passengers to divide the costs Last August at the 2,200-worker Durham path they are about to take. But not before of a flight. While flight-sharing is proving transmission factory, the computer virus the pilot checks out another flight request popular in the UK and Germany, it has been coursed through the plant’s network, flooding on his phone, using the Wingly app which slower to take off in France owing to restric- machines with data and stopping production allows clients to contact pilots directly. tions on short flights by the civil aviation for about four hours, Peterson said. Data on “A month ago, I received a request for a authority (DGAC), which was lifted in June. some laptops was lost, but the malware was flight with one-hour notice and I managed Between the three countries over 80,000 blocked by a firewall when it tried to exit the NORTH CAROLINA: This undated photo provided by AW North Carolina shows production to fly,” says Pemmiredy. “The guy was very people have registered with Wingly, includ- lucky as it was my day off, so I could fly the ing 6,000 pilots, and each month the com- plant’s network and put the hackers’ lock on the operations inside the company’s Durham, North Carolina factory.—AP couple to celebrate their anniversary in munity is growing by 20 percent. —AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 HEALTH & SCIENCE Motorhead’s ‘Lemmy’ has dino croc named after him

PARIS: A team of music-mad scientists sea crocodiles from the area. Given that it unveiled an extinct, sea-dwelling crocodile belonged to a unique group, the creature from the Jurassic period yesterday, which “needed a new scientific name,” said the they named in honor of Motorhead lead statement. “Natural History Museum cura- singer Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister who died in tor Lorna Steel was still mourning the 2015. “Lemmysuchus”-Latin for Lemmy’s demise of her favorite band, and suggest- crocodile-was about 5.8 meters long and ed that it should be named after her musi- had a skull of more than a meter-similar to cal hero.” a modern-day saltwater crocodile to which “Although Lemmy passed away at the it is only distantly related. “It would have end of 2015, we’d like to think that he would been one of the largest coastal predators of have raised a glass to Lemmysuchus, one of its time,” researchers from the Natural the nastiest sea creatures ever to have History Museum said in a statement. inhabited the Earth,” the statement quoted “The teeth were large and blunt, per- Steel as saying. Lemmy, a chain-smoker who fect for crushing prey such as turtles.” boasted of drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel’s Lemmy’s croc was dug up at Peterborough a day and of sleeping with more than 1,000 in England in the early 20th century. But it women, died in December 2015 at the age was recently re-examined and found to of 70 in Los Angeles. He formed Motorhead, have been incorrectly lumped with other a metal band, in 1975. —AFP

NEW YORK: This file photo shows visitors to the American Museum of Natural History examining a replica of a 122-foot-long dinosaur on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. —AP

PARIS: An artist’s rendering of a Lemmysuchus, a Jurassic-era sea-dwelling Meet the new heavyweight crocodile. —AFP Lassa fever kills two in Lagos dinosaur champion: Patagotitan WASHINGTON: A study proclaims a newly named Six fossils of the species were studied and dated to around. Trying to run. It’s really challenging for LAGOS: Two people in Lagos have died and a urged health workers to maintain “a heightened species the heavyweight champion of all dinosaurs, about 100 million years ago, based on ash found large animals,” he said. The big question is how did hundred medical workers have been placed under level of alert” and observe every precaution in han- making the scary Tyrannosaurus rex look like a around them, Pol said. The dinosaur averaged 122 these dinosaurs get so big, Pol said. Researchers observation after a flare-up of Lassa fever, a cousin dling suspected cases. Lassa fever, also known as munchkin. At 76 tons, the plant-eating behemoth feet long and was nearly 20 feet high at the shoul- are still studying it, but said it probably has to do of the deadly Ebola virus, officials said yesterday. Lassa hemorrhagic fever, belongs to the same fam- was as heavy as a space shuttle. The dinosaur’s fos- der. A cast of the dinosaur’s skeleton is already on with an explosion of flowering plants at the time. Lagos University Teaching Hospital said the two ily as Marburg and Ebola, two deadly viruses that sils were found in southern Argentina in 2012. display at the American Museum of Natural History. Along with a forest, it was like an all-you-can- died this week after being admitted for treatment. lead to infections with fever, vomiting and in Researchers who examined and dated them said It’s so big that the dinosaur’s head sticks out into a eat buffet for these dinosaurs and they just got “Each of these two patients presented very late worse case scenarios, hemorrhagic bleeding. Its the long-necked creature was the biggest of a hallway at the New York museum. Legendary T. rex bigger. “It’s hard to argue this isn’t a big deal and died in spite of efforts to salvage them,” name is from the town of Lassa in northern Nigeria group of large dinosaurs called titanosaurs. and other meat-eaters “look like dwarfs when you when it concerns the (probable) largest land ani- Professor Chris Bode, the hospital’s chief medical where it was first identified in 1969. “There was one small part of the family that put them against one of these giant titanosaurs,” Pol mal ever discovered,” University of Maryland pale- director, said. More than 100 people were killed last year in went crazy on size,” said Diego Pol of the Egidio said. “It’s like when you put an elephant by a lion.” ontologist Thomas Holtz, who wasn’t part of the The first case was a 39-year-old pregnant one of the nation’s worst outbreaks of the disease, Feruglio paleontology museum in Argentina, co- Scientists have known titanosaurs for a while, study, said in an email. Kristi Curry Rodgers, a woman with a bleeding disorder who died after affecting 14 of the 36 states, including Lagos and author of the study published Tuesday in the journal but this is a new species and even a new genus, paleontologist at Macalester College who wasn’t stillbirth, he said. A post-mortem examination had the capital Abuja. The virus is spread through con- Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The researchers which is a larger grouping, Pol said. Another part of the study, praised the work as important. been conducted before her Lassa fever status was tact with food or household items contaminated named the dinosaur Patagotitan mayorum after the titanosaur called Argentinosaurus was previously She said the fact that Patagotitan’s bones show confirmed. “No less than 100 different hospital with rats’ urine or faeces or after coming in direct Patagonia region where it was found and the Greek thought to be the largest. “I don’t think they were signs that they haven’t completed their growth workers exposed to this index case are currently contact with the bodily fluids of an infected per- word titan, which means large. The second name scary at all,” Pol said. “They were probably massive “means that there are even bigger dinosaurs out being monitored,” he said. He said a doctor who son. Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in honors a ranch family that hosted the researchers. big slow-moving animals.” “Getting up. Walking there to discover.”—AP took part in the autopsy and was confirmed with Abuja confirmed the outbreak. “We have put the disease, was responding to treatment. Bode health workers on the alert and are working with said two other suspected cases brought to the the authorities in Lagos to contain its spread,” an hospital were awaiting the results of tests. He official said.—AFP Baby penguin debuts at Netherlands found Aquarium of insecticide in eggs the Pacific BRUSSELS: Belgium’s agriculture minister the hardest, where the scandal erupted on said yesterday that the Netherlands August 1 and the Dutch authorities detected a potentially harmful insecticide ordered eggs pulled from supermarket LONG BEACH, California: A baby Magellanic pen- in eggs in November last year, nine shelves and urged shoppers to throw guin has made its public debut at Southern months before the pan-European scandal theirs away. Dutch authorities have tem- California’s Aquarium of the Pacific. The chick wad- became public. Minister Denis Ducarme porarily closed 138 poultry farms and may dled out in front of news media Tuesday after told a Belgian parliamentary hearing on cull millions of chickens. spending weeks in a behind-the-scenes nursery at the crisis that the Belgian food safety In addition to the Netherlands, super- the Long Beach aquarium. The chick hatched in agency obtained an internal Dutch docu- markets in Germany, Belgium, Sweden and May as the latest offspring of parents Roxy and ment that “reports the observation of the Switzerland have since pulled millions of Floyd and sibling to Skipper, Lily, Heidi and presence of fipronil in Dutch eggs at the eggs from the shelves. The problem is Anderson. Its sex has yet to be determined. end of November 2016.” believed to stem from a substance used by “There was in relation to that no official a Dutch company, Chickfriend, that farm- Magellanic penguins are native to the coasts of communication from the Netherlands,” ers in the Netherlands and Belgium say Argentina and Chile. Incubation takes 38 to 43 days Ducarme said, adding he has been in con- they hired to treat their chickens. A lawyer before hatching. Initially, chicks are covered with a tact with his colleagues in the neighboring for a Belgian company, Poultry-Vision, says CALIFORNIA: In this photo provided by the Aquarium of the Pacific, a baby penguin downy plumage that is not watertight. During a country for an explanation. The scare has the firm sold it to Chickfriend but has not swims during its public debut at the June Keyes Penguin Habitat at the Aquarium of process called fledging the down is replaced by hit major egg exporter the Netherlands said where it got the substance. —AFP the Pacific in Long Beach, California. —AP watertight juvenile feathers.—AP WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

Loyac concludes its summer program oyac youngsters concluded their summer program for the age group of 5 to 12 years during a ceremony at Al-Shaheed Park in the presence of Loyac Board Member Futooh Al-Dalali, and director of voluntary programs department Ninar Al- LQamis, as well as parents.

Eng. Jadaan Ghannam Al-Enezi returned home with his mother who was treated abroad. Chairman of Al-Wiqa Ghays voluntary team Dr. Musaed Al- Enezi and Eng. Waleed Al-Enezi received them at the airport along with fam- ily and friends. BEC announces its third draw winner

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Idukki Association to hold Onam-Eid celebration (Above) Contemporary Japan magazine Editor Mujahid Iqbal, Ambassador of Japan to Kuwait Takashi Ashiki and Irfan Nagra. (Below) Third Secretary Takatera, Iqbal, Cultural Attache Shinji Banani, Nagra and Second Secretary Sako. The Japanese Ambassador to Kuwait Takashi Ashiki held a reception at his residence on August 8, 2017 to mark the latest issue of Contemporary Japan, a magazine published annually in cooperation with the Japanese Embassy promoting business and tourism to Japan among Kuwaiti business- men and youth. The ambassador promised to support the upcoming 10th anniversary issue of Contemporary Japan and discussed holding an award ceremony to recognize companies and individuals for their support to Japan.

grand celebration of Onam and Eid called ‘Onanilavu’ of Idukki by Afsal Ghan. President Jeral Jose addressed the audience. Advisory Association - Kuwait will be held on Sep 8, 2017 at Co-op chairman Joy Mundakkattu felicitated and Jackson Chacko, General ACommunity Auditorium, Abbassya from 9.30 am onwards. IAK 2nd Secretary, Jose Thomas, Treasurer, Tom Edayody, Vice President , Shamla Humanitarian award for social service will be presented in the celebration. Biju, Secretary, Emil Mathew, Acting J Treasurer, Executive Members - Prof Gopinath Muthukad and star singer fame Jins Gopinath will perform Roy Joseph, Biju Joseph, Nix Baby, Binoy M K AB Members - Georgy in the program. The flyer of the celebration was released on Aug 06, 2017 Mathew, Shaju Paul and family, Dias Jospeh, N. S Jayakumar and family, at a function in Mangaf. Sajeev Narayanan and Abraham Kuruvila were also present during the The flyer was released by Thankachan and the coupon was released ceremony. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 TV PROGRAMS

17:25 Ridiculousness 20:40 Bizaardvark 21:35 Marvel's Ant-Man 06:00 Lost In Transmission 10:12 Game Shakers 10:55 Boychoir 17:50 Ridiculousness Arabia 21:05 Austin & Ally 21:40 Disney Mickey Mouse 06:50 Duck Dynasty 10:36 Regal Academy 12:40 The Joy Luck Club 18:15 Impractical Jokers 21:30 Stuck In The Middle 21:45 Lab Rats: Bionic Island 07:15 Duck Dynasty 11:00 Winx Club 15:00 Every Thing Will Be Fine 18:39 Key And Peele 21:55 Tsum Tsum Shorts 22:10 Lab Rats: Bionic Island 07:40 Counting Cars 11:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 17:00 Fast Girls 19:03 Ridiculousness Arabia 22:00 Bunk'd 22:35 Phineas And Ferb 08:05 Counting Cars 11:48 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 18:35 Rushmore 00:05 Vikingdom 19:27 Ridiculousness Arabia 22:25 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And 23:00 Programmes Start At 6:00am KSA 08:30 Pawn Stars 12:12 The Loud House 20:10 Some Like It Hot 02:00 Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV 19:50 Disaster Date Cat Noir 08:55 Pawn Stars 12:36 Breadwinners 22:10 The Dark Half 03:55 Jurassic World 20:13 Lip Sync Battle 'Shorties' 22:50 Lolirock 09:20 Storage Wars Miami 13:00 School Of Rock 06:00 Escape 21:00 The Daily Show With Trevor Noah 23:10 Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 09:45 Storage Wars Miami 13:24 Henry Danger 07:25 Black Rose 21:30 Another Period Witch 10:10 American Pickers 13:48 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 08:50 Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV 22:00 Idiotsitter 23:35 Binny And The Ghost 11:00 Alone 14:12 Henry Danger 10:50 Age Of Tomorrow 22:25 Kroll Show 00:50 Hollywood Medium With Tyler 11:50 Duck Dynasty 14:36 The Thundermans 00:55 Outback 12:25 Escape 22:50 John Oliver's New York Stand Up Henry 12:15 Duck Dynasty 15:00 100 Things To Do Before High 02:25 Egon And Donci 13:50 Black Rose Show 01:50 E! News 12:40 Counting Cars School 03:55 Blue Elephant 2 15:20 Echo Effect 23:15 John Oliver's New York Stand Up 02:50 Celebrity Style Story 13:05 Counting Cars 15:24 Rabbids Invasion 05:35 Memory Loss 16:50 Tracers Show 03:20 Celebrity Style Story 13:30 Ice Road Truckers 15:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 07:00 Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder 18:25 Age Of Tomorrow 23:40 The Daily Show With Trevor Noah 00:00 Henry Hugglemonster 03:50 Botched By Nature 14:20 Mountain Men 16:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 08:30 Bee Movie 20:00 Fast & Furious 7 00:15 Calimero 04:40 Botched By Nature 15:10 Lost In Transmission 16:36 The Loud House 10:05 Pet Pals In Windland 22:20 The Transporter: Refueled 00:30 Art Attack 05:30 Celebrity Style Story 16:00 Storage Wars Miami 17:00 Regal Academy 11:35 Frog Kingdom 00:55 Zou 06:00 Hollywood Medium With Tyler 16:25 Storage Wars Miami 17:24 Winx Club 13:05 Outback 01:05 Loopdidoo Henry 16:50 Pawn Stars 17:48 Hunter Street 14:35 Egon And Donci 01:20 Henry Hugglemonster 07:00 Hollywood Medium With Tyler 17:15 Pawn Stars 18:12 Henry Danger 16:05 Izzie's Way Home 00:30 Lost & Found With Mike & Jesse 01:35 Calimero Henry 17:40 Counting Cars 18:36 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 17:25 Pet Pals In Windland 01:20 World's Toughest Expeditions With 01:50 Zou 08:00 E! News: Daily Pop 18:05 Counting Cars 19:00 School Of Rock 18:55 Albert 00:45 Treehouse Masters James Cracknell 02:05 Art Attack 08:55 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 18:30 Forged In Fire 19:24 Game Shakers 20:25 Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The 3 01:40 Bad Dog 02:10 Kings Of The Wild 02:30 The Hive 09:55 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 19:20 Mountain Men 19:48 The Thundermans Musketeers 02:35 Untamed & Uncut 03:00 Pawn Queens 02:40 Loopdidoo 10:50 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 20:10 American Pickers 20:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 21:40 Izzie's Way Home 03:25 The Bronx Zoo 03:25 Pawn Queens 02:55 Henry Hugglemonster 11:45 Celebrity Style Story 21:00 Football: A Brief History By Alfie 20:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 23:00 Bee Movie 04:15 Insane Pools: Off The Deep End 03:50 Guinness World Records 03:10 Art Attack 12:15 Botched Allen 21:00 The Loud House 05:02 Mutant Planet Smashed UK 03:35 Loopdidoo 13:10 Botched 21:50 Lost Worlds 21:24 Sanjay And Craig 05:49 Untamed & Uncut 04:40 How It's Made 03:50 Calimero 14:05 Botched 22:40 Outlaw Chronicles: Hells Angels 21:48 Rabbids Invasion 06:36 Swamp Brothers 05:05 How It's Made 04:05 Art Attack 15:00 E! News: Daily Pop 23:30 American Pickers 22:12 Breadwinners 07:00 Swamp Brothers 05:30 Lost & Found With Mike & Jesse 04:30 Henry Hugglemonster 15:55 Hollywood Medium With Tyler 22:36 Harvey Beaks 00:10 Hustle And Flow 07:25 Untamed & Uncut 06:20 Mythbusters 04:45 Zou Henry 23:00 SpongeBob SquarePants 02:10 The Bucket List 08:15 Treehouse Masters 07:00 Kenny The Shark 05:00 Art Attack 16:45 Hollywood Medium With Tyler 23:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 03:55 Before We Go 09:10 Bad Dog 07:25 Adventure 8: Zoo Games 05:30 Henry Hugglemonster Henry 23:48 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 05:45 Beaches 10:05 Mutant Planet 07:50 Dogs/Cats/Pets 101 05:45 Loopdidoo 17:35 Hollywood Medium With Tyler 07:50 Seventh Son 11:00 Untamed & Uncut 08:40 How It's Made 06:00 Zou Henry 00:45 Testing The Menu With Nic Watt 09:35 The Bucket List 11:55 The Bronx Zoo 09:05 How It's Made 06:15 Calimero 18:30 Celebrity Style Story 01:10 The Food Files 11:15 Enemy Of The State 12:50 Insane Pools: Off The Deep End 09:30 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 06:30 Loopdidoo 19:00 E! News 01:40 Island Hunter 13:30 The Guardian 13:45 Bad Dog 10:20 Mythbusters 06:45 Henry Hugglemonster 20:00 WAGs Miami 02:35 Eat Street 15:50 Die Hard 14:40 Mutant Planet 11:10 Dogs/Cats/Pets 101 07:00 Sofia The First 21:00 WAGs Miami 03:00 Eat Street 00:02 Max & Ruby 18:00 Blown Away 15:35 Untamed & Uncut 12:00 Finding Bigfoot 07:25 Goldie & Bear 22:00 WAGs Miami 03:30 The Food Files 00:25 Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom 20:00 The Internship 16:30 Treehouse Masters 12:50 How It's Made 07:50 The Lion Guard 23:00 Famously Single 03:55 The Food Files 00:35 Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom 22:00 Straight Outta Compton 17:25 Whale Wars 13:15 How It's Made 08:15 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 23:55 Famously Single 04:25 Food Lover's Guide To The Planet 00:45 The Day Henry Met 18:20 Whale Wars 13:40 Lost & Found With Mike & Jesse 08:40 Doc McStuffins 04:50 Fish Of The Day 00:50 The Day Henry Met 19:15 Bad Dog 14:30 Kenny The Shark 09:05 Jake And The Never Land Pirates 05:20 Sinful Sweets 00:56 Blaze And The Monster Machines 20:10 Untamed China With Nigel Marven 14:55 Adventure 8: Zoo Games 09:30 PJ Masks 05:45 Sinful Sweets 01:18 Blaze And The Monster Machines 21:05 Whale Wars 15:20 Guinness World Records 09:45 Miles From Tomorrow 06:15 Living Free With Kimi Werner 01:40 Zack & Quack 22:00 Whale Wars Smashed UK 10:10 Little Mermaid 07:10 Island Hunter 02:02 Team Umizoomi 00:30 How Do They Do It? 22:55 Mutant Planet 16:10 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 10:35 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 00:00 Chopped 08:05 Eat Street 02:24 Olive The Ostrich 00:55 Food Factory 23:50 Untamed & Uncut 17:00 Weather Top Tens 11:00 PJ Masks 01:00 The Great Food Truck Race 08:30 Eat Street 02:29 Olive The Ostrich 01:20 Invent It Rich 17:50 Engineering Hurricanes 11:25 Goldie & Bear 02:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 09:00 The Food Files 02:35 Paw Patrol 02:10 Sci-Trek 18:40 Mythbusters 11:50 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 02:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 09:25 The Food Files 02:58 Little Charmers 03:00 How We Invented The World 19:30 How It's Made 12:15 Sofia The First 03:00 Man Fire Food 09:55 Food Lover's Guide To The Planet 03:10 Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom 03:48 Mythbusters 19:55 How It's Made 12:40 The Lion Guard 03:30 Man Fire Food 10:20 Fish Of The Day 03:22 Dora The Explorer 04:36 How Do They Do It? 20:20 Guinness World Records 13:10 Doc McStuffins 04:00 Chopped 10:50 Sinful Sweets 03:45 Max & Ruby 05:00 Food Factory Smashed UK 13:35 PJ Masks 05:00 Guy's Grocery Games 11:15 Sinful Sweets 04:06 Nella The Princess Knight 05:24 Invent It Rich 00:20 EastEnders 21:10 Weather Top Tens 14:00 My Friends Tigger & Pooh 06:00 Barefoot Contessa 11:45 Living Free With Kimi Werner 04:30 Shimmer And Shine 06:12 Sci-Trek 00:50 Poldark 22:00 Engineering Hurricanes 14:30 The Lion Guard 06:30 Barefoot Contessa 12:40 Taste Of Tropic: Taiwan 04:53 Dora And Friends 07:00 How Do They Do It? 01:45 Last Tango In Halifax 22:50 Finding Bigfoot 14:55 Unbungalievable 07:00 The Kitchen 13:35 Eat Street 05:16 Zack & Quack 07:26 How We Invented The World 02:40 DCI Banks 23:40 Guinness World Records 15:00 Sheriff Callie's Wild West 08:00 The Pioneer Woman 14:00 Eat Street 05:28 The Day Henry Met 08:14 Mythbusters 03:25 DCI Banks Smashed UK 15:30 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 08:30 The Pioneer Woman 14:30 The Food Files 05:33 The Day Henry Met 09:02 Sci-Trek 04:10 Death In Paradise 16:00 Sofia The First 09:00 Siba's Table 14:55 The Food Files 05:38 Blaze And The Monster Machines 09:50 How Do They Do It? 05:05 Poldark 16:25 Goldie & Bear 09:30 Siba's Table 15:25 Poh & Co. 06:00 Rusty Rivets 10:14 Food Factory 06:00 Father Brown 16:50 Doc McStuffins 10:00 The Pioneer Woman 15:50 Fish Of The Day 06:12 Paw Patrol 10:38 Invent It Rich 06:45 The Coroner 17:15 The Lion Guard 10:30 The Pioneer Woman 16:20 Sinful Sweets 06:37 Dora The Explorer 11:26 How We Invented The World 07:30 EastEnders 17:40 Jake And The Never Land Pirates 11:00 The Kitchen 16:45 Sinful Sweets 07:00 Zack & Quack 12:14 Mythbusters 08:00 Death In Paradise 00:30 Vanity Fair Confidential 18:05 PJ Masks 12:00 The Pioneer Woman 17:15 Living Free With Kimi Werner 07:21 Bubble Guppies 13:02 How Do They Do It? 08:55 Doctor Who 01:20 Evil Online 18:35 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 12:30 The Pioneer Woman 18:10 Fearless Chef 07:44 Blaze And The Monster Machines 13:26 Food Factory 09:45 Father Brown 02:10 Murder Comes To Town 19:05 Sofia The First 13:00 Siba's Table: Fast Feasts 19:05 Poh & Co. 08:07 Paw Patrol 13:50 Sci-Trek 10:30 EastEnders 03:00 Grave Secrets 19:35 Sheriff Callie's Wild West 13:30 Siba's Table: Fast Feasts 19:30 Fish Of The Day 08:30 Shimmer And Shine 14:38 How We Invented The World 11:00 Death In Paradise 03:48 Southern Fried Homicide 20:05 The Lion Guard 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 20:00 Sinful Sweets 08:53 Nella The Princess Knight 15:26 Invent It Rich 11:55 Doctor Who 04:36 Southern Fried Homicide 20:35 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 20:30 Sinful Sweets 09:15 The Day Henry Met 16:14 Mythbusters 12:45 Father Brown 05:24 Southern Fried Homicide 21:00 Goldie & Bear 15:00 Chopped 21:00 Living Free With Kimi Werner 09:22 Paw Patrol 17:02 Sci-Trek 13:30 The Coroner 06:12 Southern Fried Homicide 21:25 Doc McStuffins 16:00 The Kitchen 22:00 Fearless Chef 09:45 Rusty Rivets 17:50 How We Invented The World 14:20 EastEnders 07:00 Beauty Queen Murders 21:50 Minnie's Bow-Toons 17:00 The Pioneer Woman 22:55 Taste Of Tropic: Taiwan 09:57 Bubble Guppies 18:40 Mythbusters 14:45 Death In Paradise 07:50 Beauty Queen Murders 22:00 Little Mermaid 17:30 The Pioneer Woman 23:50 Eat Street 10:20 Fresh Beat Band Of Spies 19:30 Food Factory USA 15:45 Doctor Who 08:40 Beauty Queen Murders 22:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 18:00 Chopped 10:40 Zack & Quack 19:55 Food Factory USA 16:30 Father Brown 09:30 Beauty Queen Murders 22:55 PJ Masks 19:00 Chopped Junior 10:52 Team Umizoomi 20:20 How Do They Do It? 17:20 The Coroner 10:20 The Locator 23:20 Henry Hugglemonster 20:00 Rev Run's Sunday Suppers 11:15 Shimmer And Shine 20:45 Food Factory 18:10 Carters Get Rich 10:45 The Locator 23:35 The Hive 20:30 Rev Run's Sunday Suppers 11:38 Shimmer And Shine 21:10 Sci-Trek 18:30 EastEnders 11:10 Women In Prison 23:45 Loopdidoo 21:00 Smollett Eats 12:01 Max & Ruby 22:00 Food Factory USA 19:05 Death In Paradise 12:00 Southern Fried Homicide 21:30 Smollett Eats 00:10 Surgery Ship 12:25 Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom 22:25 Food Factory USA 20:00 Holby City 12:50 Southern Fried Homicide 22:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 01:00 Diana: In Her Own Words 12:36 Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom 22:50 How We Invented The World 21:00 Carters Get Rich 13:40 Southern Fried Homicide 22:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 03:00 Nazi Megastructures 12:47 The Day Henry Met 23:40 Mythbusters 21:25 Mum 14:30 Southern Fried Homicide 23:00 Chopped 04:00 Surgery Ship 12:52 The Day Henry Met 22:00 Uncle 15:20 The Locator 05:00 Generals At War 12:57 Blaze And The Monster Machines 22:25 Pramface 15:45 The Locator 00:20 Wheeler Dealers 06:00 Outsiders: Living Off The Edge 13:19 Blaze And The Monster Machines 23:00 Benidorm 16:10 Evil Online 01:05 Blowing Up History 07:00 World's Most Extreme 13:41 Zack & Quack 23:50 Death In Paradise 17:00 I'd Kill For You 01:50 Strip The City 08:00 King Fishers 14:03 Team Umizoomi 17:50 I'd Kill For You 02:35 Made By Destruction 09:00 Generals At War 14:25 Olive The Ostrich 00:15 Million Dollar Arm 18:40 I'd Kill For You 02:57 Made By Destruction 00:00 Don't Tell The Bride 10:00 Supercar Megabuild 14:30 Olive The Ostrich 02:15 Nine 19:30 I'd Kill For You 03:20 Fast N' Loud 01:00 Emmerdale 11:00 Big Fix Alaska 14:35 Paw Patrol 04:15 Heartbreakers 20:20 On The Case With Paula Zahn 04:05 Running Wild With Bear Grylls 01:30 Emmerdale 12:00 Nazi Megastructures 14:58 Little Charmers 06:15 The Woman In Black 21:10 Murder Chose Me 04:50 Gold Rush 02:00 Coronation Street 13:00 Highway Thru Hell 15:10 Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom 08:00 Zero Dark Thirty 00:00 Escaping Polygamy 22:00 Murder Comes To Town 05:35 How Do They Do It? 02:30 Masterpiece With Alan Titchmarsh 14:00 King Fishers 15:22 Dora The Explorer 10:30 Laws Of Attraction 01:00 Celebrity Ghost Stories 22:50 The Detectives Club: New Orleans 06:00 Gold Divers 03:25 This Is England '90 15:00 Megastructures 15:44 Max & Ruby 12:15 Million Dollar Baby 02:00 My Haunted House 23:40 Evil Online 06:45 Wheeler Dealers 04:20 Lewis 16:00 Supercar Megabuild 16:07 Nella The Princess Knight 14:30 Million Dollar Arm 03:00 Psychic Kids: Children Of The 07:30 Fast N' Loud 05:15 The Queen's Worst Year 17:00 Big Fix Alaska 16:31 Shimmer And Shine 16:30 The Moment Paranormal 08:15 Running Wild With Bear Grylls 06:05 Don't Tell The Bride 18:00 Locked Up Abroad 16:54 Dora And Friends 18:00 Nine 04:00 Escaping Polygamy 09:00 Storage Hunters 07:05 Masterpiece With Alan Titchmarsh 19:00 Megastructures 17:17 Zack & Quack 20:00 American Hustle 05:00 Celebrity Ghost Stories 09:25 How Do They Do It? 08:00 This Is England '90 20:00 Supercar Megabuild 17:29 The Day Henry Met 22:30 Committed 06:00 It Takes A Killer 09:47 How Do They Do It? 09:00 Lewis 20:50 Big Fix Alaska 17:34 The Day Henry Met 06:30 It Takes A Killer 00:00 Hank Zipzer 10:10 Blowing Up History 10:00 The Queen's Worst Year 21:40 Locked Up Abroad 17:38 Blaze And The Monster Machines 07:00 It Takes A Killer 00:25 Alex & Co. 10:55 Strip The City 10:50 Don't Tell The Bride 22:30 Megastructures 18:00 Rusty Rivets 07:30 It Takes A Killer 00:45 The Hive 11:40 Made By Destruction 11:50 Masterpiece With Alan Titchmarsh 23:20 King Fishers 18:13 Paw Patrol 08:00 The First 48 00:50 Evermoor Chronicles 12:02 Made By Destruction 12:45 Emmerdale 18:37 Dora The Explorer 09:00 Homicide Hunter 01:15 Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 12:25 Gold Rush 13:15 Coronation Street 19:00 Zack & Quack 00:00 Project Runway 10:00 It Takes A Killer Witch 13:55 Deadliest Catch 13:45 Coronation Street 19:21 Bubble Guppies 01:00 Project Runway 10:30 It Takes A Killer 01:40 Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 15:25 Fast N' Loud 14:10 Don't Tell The Bride 19:44 Blaze And The Monster Machines 02:00 Bones 11:00 It Takes A Killer Witch 16:10 Wheeler Dealers 15:10 Masterpiece With Alan Titchmarsh 20:07 Paw Patrol 03:00 Bones 11:30 It Takes A Killer 02:05 Binny And The Ghost 17:00 How Do They Do It? 16:00 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of 20:30 Shimmer And Shine 04:00 Bones 12:00 It Takes A Killer 02:30 Binny And The Ghost 17:25 How Do They Do It? Here! 00:20 Amazonia's Giant Jaws 20:53 Nella The Princess Knight 05:00 Making Mr. Right 12:30 It Takes A Killer 02:55 Hank Zipzer 17:50 Storage Hunters 17:15 Catchphrase 01:10 Monster Fish 21:15 The Day Henry Met 06:00 Grey's Anatomy 13:00 It Takes A Killer 03:15 The Hive 18:20 Storage Hunters 17:50 Autopsy: The Last Hours Of... 02:00 Super Pride 21:22 Paw Patrol 07:00 Grey's Anatomy 13:30 It Takes A Killer 03:20 Hank Zipzer 18:50 Running Wild With Bear Grylls 18:45 Emmerdale 02:50 Spine Chillers: Scorpions 21:45 Rusty Rivets 08:00 Project Runway 14:00 The First 48 03:45 Alex & Co. 19:40 How Do They Do It? 19:15 Coronation Street 03:45 World's Weirdest Creepy Cures 21:57 Bubble Guppies 09:00 Project Runway 15:00 Cold Case Files 04:10 Alex & Co. 20:10 How Do They Do It? 19:45 Coronation Street 04:40 Unlikely Animal Friends 22:20 Fresh Beat Band Of Spies 10:00 Bones 16:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 04:35 Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 20:35 How Do They Do It? 20:10 Masterpiece With Alan Titchmarsh 05:35 Super Pride 22:40 Zack & Quack 11:00 Bones 17:00 Crimes That Shook Australia Witch 21:00 Ocean Warriors 21:00 I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of 06:30 Spine Chillers: Scorpions 22:52 Team Umizoomi 12:00 Bones 18:00 It Takes A Killer 05:00 Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 21:50 How Do They Do It? Here! 07:25 World's Weirdest Creepy Cures 23:15 Shimmer And Shine 13:00 Making Mr. Right 18:30 It Takes A Killer Witch 22:15 How Do They Do It? 22:10 Catchphrase 08:20 Unlikely Animal Friends 23:38 Shimmer And Shine 14:00 Grey's Anatomy 19:00 The First 48 05:25 Binny And The Ghost 22:40 Impossible Engineering 22:50 Emmerdale 09:15 Dr. K's Exotic Animal 2.5 15:00 Grey's Anatomy 20:00 Homicide Hunter 05:45 The Hive 23:30 Fast N' Loud 23:15 Coronation Street 10:10 World's Deadliest 16:00 Project Runway 21:00 Cold Case Files 05:50 The 7D 23:35 Coronation Street 11:05 Snakes In The City 18:00 Cougar Town 22:00 Homicide Hunter 06:00 Jessie 12:00 Shark Island 21:00 Making Mr. Right 23:00 The First 48 06:25 Jessie 12:55 Attack Of The Big Cats 22:00 Grey's Anatomy 06:50 Tsum Tsum Shorts 13:50 Spine Chillers: Vampire Bats 00:25 Little Women 23:00 Grey's Anatomy 06:55 Lolirock 14:45 When Sharks Attack Compilations 02:25 Underdog 07:20 Elena Of Avalor 06:00 Milo Murphy's Law 00:00 Ancient Discoveries 15:40 Unlikely Animal Friends 03:50 Bark Ranger 07:45 Bunk'd 06:25 Supa Strikas 01:00 Engineering An Empire 16:35 Dr. K's Exotic Animal 2.5 05:15 Santa's Little Helper 08:10 Stuck In The Middle 06:50 Mech-X4 02:00 Missing In Alaska 17:30 World's Deadliest 06:55 Little Women 00:05 Inside Amy Schumer 08:35 Bizaardvark 07:15 Right Now Kapow 02:50 Ancient Aliens 18:25 When Sharks Attack Compilations 09:00 Underdog 00:30 Inside Amy Schumer 09:00 Austin & Ally 07:40 Gravity Falls 03:40 True Monsters 19:20 Attack Of The Big Cats 10:30 Brother Bear 00:20 My 600lb Life: Where Are They 00:55 Broad City 09:25 Austin & Ally 08:05 Marvel's Ant-Man 04:30 Million Dollar Genius 20:10 Unlikely Animal Friends 12:00 Bark Ranger Now? 01:20 Broad City 09:50 Good Luck Charlie 08:10 K.C. Undercover 05:20 Ancient Discoveries 21:00 Dr. K's Exotic Animal 2.5 13:30 Tarzan 01:05 Weighing Up The Enemy 01:45 Another Period 10:15 Good Luck Charlie 08:35 Milo Murphy's Law 06:10 The Universe 21:50 World's Deadliest 15:00 Finding Nemo 01:50 Botched Up Bodies 02:10 Chappelle's Show 10:40 Alex & Co. 09:00 Star vs The Forces Of Evil 07:00 Engineering An Empire 22:40 When Sharks Attack Compilations 16:45 Secretariat 02:35 Oprah: Where Are They Now? 02:35 Important Things With Demitri 11:05 Lolirock 09:25 Supa Strikas 08:00 Missing In Alaska 23:30 Shark Island 18:55 The Game Plan 03:20 Little People, Big World Martin 11:30 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And 09:50 Supa Strikas 09:00 Ancient Aliens 20:55 Pirates Of The Caribbean 2: Dead 04:05 Toddlers & Tiaras 03:00 The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Cat Noir 10:20 Kickin' It 10:00 Monster Quest Man's Chest 04:50 Your Style In His Hands 03:25 Disorderly Conduct: Video On 11:55 Disney Mickey Mouse 10:45 Kickin' It 11:00 The Universe 23:30 Finding Nemo 05:35 Say Yes To The Dress Patrol 12:00 Welcome To The Ronks 11:10 Mighty Med 12:00 Ancient Discoveries 06:00 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners 04:15 Lip Sync Battle 12:15 Hank Zipzer 11:35 Mighty Med 13:00 Engineering An Empire 06:45 Katie Price's Pony Club 04:40 Ridiculousness 12:40 Dog With A Blog 12:00 Lab Rats: Bionic Island 14:00 Missing In Alaska 00:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 07:30 Say Yes To The Dress: Canada 05:05 Disaster Date 13:05 Star Darlings 12:30 Lab Rats: Bionic Island 15:00 Ancient Aliens 00:36 Rabbids Invasion 07:52 Say Yes To The Dress: Canada 05:30 Catch A Contractor 13:10 Good Luck Charlie 12:55 K.C. Undercover 16:00 Monster Quest 01:00 Rabbids Invasion 08:15 Little People, Big World 06:20 Framework 13:35 Austin & Ally 13:20 K.C. Undercover 17:00 The Universe 01:24 Sanjay And Craig 01:05 A Short History Of Decay 09:00 Cake Boss 07:15 Disorderly Conduct: Video On 14:00 Jessie 13:45 Gamer's Guide To Pretty Much 18:00 Ancient Discoveries 01:48 Sanjay And Craig 02:40 Lovesick 09:25 Toddlers & Tiaras Patrol 14:25 Lolirock Everything 19:00 Engineering An Empire 02:12 Winx Club 04:10 My Bakery In Brooklyn 10:10 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners 08:05 Disaster Date 14:50 The Zhuzhus 14:10 Disney Mickey Mouse 20:00 Missing In Alaska 02:36 Winx Club 05:55 Ricki And The Flash 10:55 Outdaughtered: Busby Quints 08:30 Impractical Jokers 15:15 Whisker Haven Tales With The 14:15 Future-Worm! 21:00 Ancient Aliens 03:00 Harvey Beaks 07:40 Once Upon A Crime 11:40 Oprah: Where Are They Now? 08:55 Ridiculousness Palace Pets 14:40 Kirby Buckets 22:00 Blood And Glory: The Civil War In 03:24 Harvey Beaks 09:15 Lovesick 12:25 7 Little Johnstons 09:20 Key And Peele 15:20 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And 15:05 Lab Rats Color 03:48 The Loud House 10:45 My Bakery In Brooklyn 13:10 Say Yes To The Dress: Canada 09:45 Lip Sync Battle Cat Noir 15:30 Walk The Prank 23:00 Million Dollar Genius 04:12 The Loud House 12:30 Once Upon A Crime 13:32 Say Yes To The Dress: Canada 10:10 Ridiculousness 15:45 Elena Of Avalor 15:55 Right Now Kapow 04:36 Breadwinners 14:10 Fierce Creatures 13:55 Toddlers & Tiaras 10:35 Disaster Date 16:10 Liv And Maddie 16:25 K.C. Undercover 05:00 Breadwinners 15:50 Mr. Deeds 14:40 Little People, Big World 11:00 Urban Tarzan 16:35 Descendants Wicked World 16:50 Kirby Buckets 05:24 Get Blake 17:30 Other Plans 15:25 Married By Mum And Dad 11:25 Tattoo Disasters 16:40 Girl Meets World 17:15 Mech-X4 05:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 19:00 Love, Rosie 16:10 Love, Lust Or Run 11:50 Disaster Date 17:05 Stuck In The Middle 17:40 Gravity Falls 06:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 20:45 Baby, Baby, Baby 16:35 Cake Boss 12:15 Catch A Contractor 17:30 Bunk'd 18:05 Disney Mickey Mouse 06:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 22:15 The Bronze 17:00 Belief 13:05 Disorderly Conduct: Video On 17:55 Bizaardvark 18:10 Milo Murphy's Law 00:20 Counting Cars 07:00 The Loud House 17:50 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners Patrol 18:20 Disney Mickey Mouse 18:35 Disney11 00:45 Counting Cars 07:24 Rabbids Invasion 18:50 Your Style In His Hands 13:55 Sweat Inc. 18:25 Alex & Co. 19:00 Disney11 01:10 Forged In Fire 07:48 Get Blake 19:40 Say Yes To The Dress 14:45 Lip Sync Battle 18:50 Best Friends Whenever 19:25 K.C. Undercover 02:00 Hunting Hitler 08:12 Harvey Beaks 20:10 Cake Boss 15:10 Lip Sync Battle 19:15 Sunny Bunnies 19:50 Marvel's Ant-Man 02:50 Storage Wars Miami 08:36 Sanjay And Craig 20:35 Cake Boss 15:35 Ridiculousness 19:20 Liv And Maddie 19:55 Milo Murphy's Law 03:15 American Pickers 09:00 Rank The Prank 01:35 Child Of God 21:00 Say Yes To The Dress: Canada 16:00 Impractical Jokers 19:45 Mako Mermaids 20:20 Mech-X4 04:05 Pawn Stars 09:24 Henry Danger 03:20 Lawrence Of Arabia 21:25 Say Yes To The Dress: Canada 16:30 Disaster Date 20:10 Jessie 20:45 Kirby Buckets 04:30 Pawn Stars 09:48 100 Things To Do Before High 06:55 The Joy Luck Club 21:50 90 Day Fianc?: Happily Ever After? 16:55 Disaster Date 20:35 Cracke 21:10 Walk The Prank 05:00 Mountain Men School 09:15 Oliver's Deal 22:40 Say Yes To The Dress UK stars26 THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

CROSSWORD 1682 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

Many of your friends from the past still keep in contact with you and you Stay in touch with your own sense of direction. Many things come to your keep in contact with them. It is fun to see the kids in each family grow and attention this morning and staying focused may become very difficult. Work particularly prosper. Having so many friends in so many different places makes it fun to travel and visit hard now to stay focused and complete projects. This is an exciting day and you could and even entertain the idea of trading homes occasionally. A new relationship coming to become distracted from what you really want to accomplish. An instinctive urge to get you may be based first on a sort of friendship. You know there are more friends to enjoy serious about taking care of you is emphasized now. Diet, exercise and work become and someday a special person will be available to share life experiences with you. All people important routines now. You want to feel good about yourself and the way you do have something special to bring to the experience of living and they create wonderful chal- things. A healthy change in your diet and a new exercise program are positive plans. lenges as well as simple pleasures. A new friend may take an interest in making movies or Perhaps you can bring a friend or family member along when you exercise. You will find you may decide to try your hand at some form of art. Happy birthday! this time speeds right along when shared with a friend.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

You are in a mood of self-enjoyment this morning and may express your- An appointment or a meeting signifies the need to be professionally well self with much confidence. You may see value in or feel love for an older person or some- dressed. Your presentation or report will bring you respect. Considering you set the pace one in authority. You appreciate and discover the beauty in your own life and in those for others to follow, you will do well to keep current with trends and styles. Allocating cer- around you. At the same time, everything could take on added value and importance. Be tain responsibilities to trusted individuals will gain excellent results. You are in a planning careful that you do not overspend or indulge too much just now. You may find yourself mood this afternoon and are able to view all the alternate paths. You can see the road enjoying a long conversation, writing a letter or making a special phone call this after- ahead and will make the right choices. One of the most common human experiences is noon. You feel good when all the people in your life are accounted for and in a healthy disappointment. You help a member of your family recover and learn from a disappoint- place. The preparations for a get-together with your friends will show off your abilities to ment that might be felt today. Most people see disappointment as a downer; you teach create a positive and beautiful atmosphere. that it can be a tool for correction, learning and growth.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) A feeling of inadequacy or frustration may occur today. It is important to Partnerships are accented and through this avenue, you will find much can look at the possibility that failures at work may not be your fault. You are, be accomplished. When given the opportunity, you generously want to share your however, to be commended for your dedication and perseverance and can find answers visions, ideals and ideas with other people-they can be spellbound for hours. You might or solve a problem without the stress most would feel. You crave organization and you want to pay attention to the interest that someone shows you and learn when to back ACROSS 4. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used want to get things accomplished. Good focus and concentration make most any task away from a conversation if others are not interested. Today, however, you will encourage run well. 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Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in Dali region of Yunnan. the air. 7. A doctor's degree in optometry. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 16. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage 8. Imperial moths. 9. Being five more than one hundred. You could be very popular this day, especially with superiors or in relation Clear some space so that you can work more easily. Hard work and trying to birds. to your work. You may find that you enjoy your job or the responsibility it entails more 10. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father make contact with higher-ups seem to take priority. Problem is-this activity of trying to 17. A boy or man. than usual. Your dealings with money will be successful as well. If your attitude is positive, contact certain people may be a bit difficult. You have time to think through what you 18. 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American dramatist (1928- ). could mean a longing for a soul mate or a yearning to save the world; it could mean car- teach you. Health habits and work goals also come to your attention and you may decide marily in bauxite. rying a torch as well; patience. to set a few goals. A sense of harmony makes this a happy time. 23. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) 13. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout floating at sea. the tropics for its edible root and in temper- ate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy 25. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature ema- Aquarius (January 20- February 18) nating from the Supreme Being and playing leaves. Leo (July 23-August 22) various roles in the operation of the universe. 14. Any place of complete bliss and delight and Some previous plans that are finally developing into a most positive end Watch what you say to a new person today-you will be protecting your 29. Animal food for browsing or grazing. peace. 19. Either of two Welsh breeds of long-bodied result will boost the mood for you and those around you today; whatever the case this is best inte rests in yo ur future job security. Speculating or participating in sports may be 31. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the a day that is approached with high energy and an attitude that gets much accomplished. scheduled this afternoon. Perhaps you and your co-workers have an ongoing tourna- short-legged dogs with erect ears and a fox- letters of another word or phrase. Success is easy to find. Others will notice your efficiency. Your inner resources and emo- ment. You may find yourself being put to good use by your friends and enjoying them as like head. 33. Goddess of fate. tions are accented. This afternoon new projects come to your attention. There are inter- well. Excessive emotional energy could produce flare-ups, harsh wo rds and arguments. 21. Capital and largest city of Iraq. esting subjects for your evaluation and a relationship from the past may come to your Be aware of this possibility and when you feel yourself becoming highly emotional, take a 36. A member of a North American Indian people 24. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree. attention later this afternoon. Find time to relax and commune with nature in order to break in order to re focus. Find ways to relax this evening by doing something really fun- of southeastern California and northwestern 26. Any of various hard resins from trees of the balance your energies before the evening begins. Avoid actively pursuing new social ny, re nting a comedy video, tickling a loved one, etc. Laughter is the best way to promote Mexico. objectives. There is a small package for you to open this evening. a healing and get rid of any excessive negative energy. family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus 37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the Agathis. heaviest of the halogen series). 27. A river in central Brazil that flows generally 39. Covered with scabs. northward (with many falls) to join the Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. Tocantins River. Work progresses fairly well today; obtaining and exchanging informa- Job-related subjects take precedence this morning. New projects turn out 42. A pilgrimage to Mecca. 28. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone 45. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River. tion take on more importance. To complete important work, you may need certain infor- to be more successful than you had previously thought. There seems to be else. mation from others-you can successfully accomplish this with your smooth professional very little that you cannot do today-the day is yours. You have the energy and wisdom to 46. Found along western Atlantic coast. 30. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely manner. If there is someone you are trying to influence, this would be the day when you tackle any problem that comes to your attention. A lot of personal and sensitive psycho- 48. Crowd or pack to capacity. the razorbill. would be most successful. Setting time aside this evening for family conversations logical material from a mate may be just as important for you as for your mate. You may 50. Someone who is morally reprehensible. 32. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism makes for a closer knit family and the feeling of a good support system for all. Helping a look back on this time as very transforming. There could be a temporary estrangement 51. A state in northwestern North America. (1469-1538). young person with a hobby may aid in his or her creativeness and provide opportunities from a loved one today but if you leave this alone it will be turned around for the positive. 52. An association of countries in the western for one-on-one conversations. You work on a project this evening while this young per- Being more closely involved with another person may well become your highest priority. 34. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine son enjoys his or her hobby-perhaps you sew, repair furniture, etc. Marriage, contracts and partnerships are seen as keys to success and happiness. hemisphere. and southern Quebec. 54. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh. 35. Of or relating to a dyad or based on two. 58. Of or relating to the language of Germans. 38. Consideration in dealing with others and Word Search 60. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings. avoiding giving offence. Yesterday’s Solution 62. Someone who works (or provides workers) 40. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or during a strike. smoked. 63. Set down according to a plan. 43. The phenomenon of resistance to motion 64. Affected manners intended to impress others. through a fluid. 67. 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MUSIC & MOVIES Glen Campbell said goodbye to his life, career through music

len Campbell was a rare entertainer who got to say "Tequila" fame. He was part of the house band for the ABC TV "The Summer Brothers Smothers Show." "The whole lid just goodbye to his life and career in every way he knew show "Shindig!" and a member of Phil Spector's "Wrecking blew off," Campbell told the AP. "I had never had anything like Ghow. Before his mind evaporated into Alzheimer's dis- Crew" studio band that played on hits by the Ronettes, the that happen to me. I got more phone calls. It was awesome. ease, Campbell was able to go out on one last big tour, star in Righteous Brothers and the Crystals. Campbell also played For the first couple of days I was like how do they know me? I a documentary and record an album of his favorite songs, fit- guitar on Frank Sinatra's "Strangers In the Night," The didn't realize the power of television." His guests included tingly called "Adios." Three of his children sing on the album, Monkees' "I'm a Believer" and Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas." country acts, but also The Monkees, Lucille Ball, Cream, Neil which was released earlier this summer. The country superstar "We'd get the rock 'n' roll guys and play all that, then we'd Diamond and Ella Fitzgerald. died Tuesday morning in Nashville, Campbell's family said. He get Sinatra and Dean Martin," Campbell told The Associated Like his crossover contemporaries Johnny Cash, Roy Clark was 81. Press in 2011. "That was a kick. I really enjoyed that. I didn't and Kenny Rogers, Campbell also enjoyed success on TV. He "I owe him everything I am, and everything I ever will be," want to go nowhere. I was making more money than I ever had a weekly audience of some 50 million people for the daughter Ashley Campbell wrote on Twitter. "He will be made just doing studio work." One of 12 children, Campbell "Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour" on CBS. He released more remembered so well and with so much love." A guitarist since left his native Arkansas and a life of farm work as a teenager in than 70 of his own albums, and in the 1990s recorded a series age 4, Campbell's musical talent, boyish looks and friendly pursuit of music. He moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to of gospel CDs. A 2011 album, "Ghost On the Canvas," included charm brought him decades of success. He won five Grammys, join his uncle's band and appear on his uncle's radio show. By contributions from Jacob Dylan, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick sold more than 45 million records, had 12 gold albums and 75 his early 20s, Campbell had formed his own group, the and Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins. "Adios" features col- chart hits, including No. 1 songs with "Rhinestone Cowboy" Western Wranglers, and moved to Los Angeles. He opened for laborations with Willie Nelson and Vince Gill. and "Southern Nights." His performance of the title song from The Doors and sang and played bass with The Beach Boys as a Campbell was married four times and had eight children. the 1969 film "True Grit," in which he played a Texas Ranger replacement for Brian Wilson, who in the mid-'60s had retired As he would confide in painful detail, he suffered for his fame alongside Oscar winner John Wayne, received an Academy from touring to concentrate on studio work. and made others suffer as well. He drank heavily, used drugs Award nomination. Campbell was nominated again for an and indulged in a turbulent relationship with country singer Oscar in 2015 for "I'm Not Gonna Miss You," a song from the Minor traffic accident Tanya Tucker in the early 1980s. In late 2003, he was arrested documentary "Glen Campbell... I'll Be Me." In 1966, Campbell played on The Beach Boys' classic "Pet near his home in Phoenix after causing a minor traffic acci- The 2014 film about Campbell's farewell tour in 2011 and Sounds" album. "I didn't go to Nashville because Nashville at dent. He later pleaded guilty to "extreme" DUI and leaving the 2012 offers a poignant look at his decline from Alzheimer's that time seemed one-dimensional to me," he told the AP. "I'm scene of an accident and served a 10-day sentence. Besides while showcasing his virtuoso guitar chops that somehow a jazzer. I just love to get the guitar and play the hell out of it if wife Kim and daughter Ashley, Campbell is survived by chil- continued to shine as his mind unraveled. His wife, Kim I can." By the late '60s, he was a performer on his own, and an dren Cal, Shannon, Debby, Kelli, Travis, Kane and Dillon, and In this file photo, musician Glen Campbell poses for a por- Campbell, announced earlier this year that her husband could appearance on Joey Bishop's show led to his TV breakthrough. 10 grandchildren. — AP trait in Malibu, Calif. — AP no longer play guitar. Campbell's musical career dated back to Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers saw the program the early years of rock 'n roll. He toured with the Champs of and asked Campbell if he'd like to host a summertime series,

Review Review Love somehow shines In 'Good Time,' Pattinson through 'The Glass Castle' in the role of his life ny parents of young children - or anyone scrabble youth as a rising magazine writer in thinking of hearing the pitter-patter of lit- New York City. The movie opens like the book, he fraternal directing duo of Josh Rush of neon colors Atle feet - are urged to go to their local with the author in a taxi in 1989 happening to and Benny Safdie make urban From here, it's a nonstop freefall. movie theater and see "The Glass Castle." Not as spy her parents Dumpster-diving on a street in Todysseys that flow with the quick- Chased by the police, Nick crashes a how-to guide, mind you. No, that might actu- the East Village. A series of flashbacks reveal the silver currents of New York City. You can through a glass door and is arrested. ally get you thrown in jail. They should go see it unique way the Walls' four children were raised. feel the gum-stained pavement under Connie, desperate to put bail money instead as a much-needed reminder that you They have an artistic, bohemian mother (an your feet. You can smell the Q train. The together, first tries to take advantage of can mess up spectacularly with your kids and understated Naomi Watts as Rose Mary Walls) Safdies were already an electric new his better-off girlfriend (Jennifer Jason still manage to have them adore you. "The Glass and a fiery, charismatic dad (Harrelson as Rex energy in cinema - streetwise and scuzzy Leigh) and, when that fails, improvises his Castle " is steeped in crazy love, but love Walls) who promises to build a fantastic glass - but in the ironically titled caper "Good way through increasingly audacious nonetheless. castle for the family to live in one day. Their Time," they have quickened their already schemes in a nocturnal adventure that Based on Jeannette Walls' 2005 best-selling father is brilliant and dashing but undepend- kinetic pace. This movie, wild and erratic, somehow includes trips to an amuse- memoir, the film is both a tribute to parenting able. He offers them their own stars in the heav- is downright blistering. The opening ment park, White Castle and a random and a confessional of its absence. Like the book, ens for Christmas, but takes their last few dollars In this file photo, Taylor Swift performs at the DIRECTV NOW credits, as if rushing to catch up, don't household in which Connie takes the it looks back without pity or sentiment. Unlike to get drunk. Warts and all are shown - yet very Super Saturday Night Concert in Houston, Texas. — AP appear until well into the film, after all time to dye his hair blond. Along the way, the book, it's got Woody Harrelson and Brie little blame. hell has already broken loose. Taliah Webster, as a black teen exploited Larson, acting spectacularly. Walls created a sen- The exact moment when dad goes from off- Many of their gritty, abrasive tales by Connie, and the "Heaven Knows What" sation when she wrote about her destitute and beat quirky to dangerous is never clear but emanate directly from the street; that's actor Buddy Duress, give terrific perform- nomadic youth, a childhood of hunger and pri- Harrelson's descent into a moody, angry, lying Taylor Swift 'cost where they found the homeless, heroin- ances. (Duress' entrance is alone worth vation at the hands of a pair of idiosyncratic par- Walls - but one always loving - is riveting. A man addicted protagonist (Arielle Holmes) of the price of admission.) ents who shunned schools, authority, capitalism who once promised thrilling freedom for his kids their last film, the verite "Heaven Knows In the annals of the crime film, the and regular bill payments. becomes their warden, refusing to let them me my career,' What." The same could not be said for the pulpy "Good Time" is roughly the oppo- Hers was a childhood where she suddenly leave for better lives. (The younger Jeannettes star of "Good Time": Robert Pattinson. site of something like the uber-profes- moved in the middle of the night, badly burned are played with real skill by Ella Anderson and The "Twilight" actor, captivated by a still sional thieves of "Heat." At one point, herself while unsupervised at the stove, had to Chandler Head). Jeannette Walls' story is clearly radio host tells jury from "Heaven Knows What," contacted "Cops" is seen on a television, and these eat butter and sugar as a meal, endured rages lovingly protected by the filmmakers, from the the Safdies and out came "Good Time." are the kind of dimwitted exploits that from her alcoholic dad and lived in homes with- stiff shoulder pads of the 1980s to the develop- It goes without saying that this is a would fit right in there. But aside from out plumbing or electricity. She was left in the ing darkness of the film. There's astonishing at groping trial long way off from "Twilight" - a franchise being a devoted brother, the predatory house of an abuser to fend for herself and detail rendered, down to the use of real Rose that, whatever its other attributes, has at Connie also a clever, lecherous user of "learned" to swim when her father repeatedly Mary Walls' paintings on the walls and the long- US radio host denied groping pop singer Taylor Swift and least given us two of the most interesting people. Love was a drug for the smitten tossed her underwater so she'd no longer cling gone "Please Do Not Slam the Door" stickers on accused her of ruining his career as a civil suit brought by actors of a generation. While Kristen young woman of "Heaven Knows What." to the side of the pool. Struggle, she was taught, yellow cab windows. Ahim got underway Tuesday. The 27-year-old Swift has Stewart has already won acclaim for her- For the brothers of "Good Time," it's an gives life beauty. Adventure was more important In the face of a horrific childhood, the Walls counter-sued, alleging David "Jackson" Mueller groped her during self in Olivier Assayas films and others, exploitation. But in the film's headlong than comfort. kids are fiercely protective of each other, as a photo opportunity at a 2013 concert. She looked on with her Pattinson has more quietly assembled an rush, the jailed Nick virtually disappears, "You learn from living," her father says after expected. What's not as expected is that they mother at her side in the Denver courtroom as he took the stand equally impressive filmography with the and that feels like a mistake. If there's a steering the family's broken-down station wag- still love their parents, too. Frustratingly, it's not to testify. "It cost me my career...the thing I love the most," Mueller likes of David Cronenberg and James knock on "Good Time," it's that its sheer on into the unforgiving desert for a night under clear if they became happy adults because of said. "It's despicable, the thing they've accused me of." the stars. "Everything else is a damn lie." The film their upbringing or despite of it, but that almost Mueller did not sue his station KYGO or its parent company is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, who co- seems beside the point. The messages here are Lincoln Financial Media Co of Colorado, after he was fired June 4, wrote the screenplay with Andrew Lanham and that kids are more resilient than we think, that 2013. Instead, he is seeking $3 million in lost wages and future reunites with Larson, who starred in his indie your parents aren't as crazy as you think, and income from Swift, alleging her complaint led to his unfair dis- "Short Term 12." It's a mature, empathetic work that love always, always, wins. "The Glass Castle," missal. He told the court he had sent out two dozen resumes and of filmmaking from a young artist even if such a a Lionsgate release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion audio samples, but received no job offers since being terminated. quirky story has a few too many grand Picture Association of America for "mature the- He had a contract with KYGO for $150,000 a year. Mueller's attor- Hollywood flourishes, as when our heroine - matic content involving family dysfunction, and ney Gabriel McFarland told the eight member jury it was a "he high heels in hand - abruptly leaves a fancy din- for some language and smoking." Running time: said, she said situation," and that Swift mistook her client for ner to sprint to her father's bedside amid a soar- 127 minutes. Three stars out of four. someone else. ing soundtrack. MPAA Definition of PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate 'It's an assault ' Artistic, bohemian mother for children under 13. — AP The singer, who alleges he lifted her skirt and fondled her but- Larson plays the adult Jeanette Walls who tocks during the photo op, has said she knew who had assaulted Gray, in whose "The Lost City of Z" eagerness for anything unconventional seems to have blocked out much of her hard- her. Her lawyer, Doug Baldridge, told the jury that four members Pattinson made such a distinct (if heavily comes at the cost of something deeper. of Swift's team were in the room where the photo was taken, and bearded) impression earlier this year. But what a trip it is. "Good Time" flies knew immediately something wrong had happened. "It's not In "Good Time," he plays Connie, one by in a rush of neon colors and the throb- inappropriate touching. It's an assault," Baldridge said. He said of two brothers from Queens. The other, bing electro score of Oneohtrix Point Mueller, who was 51 at the time of the incident, has changed his Nick (played by co-director Benny Never. The cinematography of Sean Price story seven times since it occurred. "This side has never changed Safdie), is mentally challenged. With no Williams is exceptionally agile. In the its position," he said. parents apparently on the scene, Connie style of Robert Altman's "McCabe & Mrs According to Baldridge, Mueller had destroyed five laptops or is Nick's keeper, and a highly question- Miller," Williams fuses grainy realism with cell phones that may have contained recorded evidence of his able one at that. In the opening scene, he frozen moments held in a lengthy zoom. meeting with KYGO executives, possibly including other refer- pulls Nick out of a psychiatrist session, And in close-up, we see Pattinson more ences to the DJ's behavior that the radio station was not happy admonishing him as they hustle down clearly than ever before. His performance with. Jurors hearing the case were picked earlier in the day from a the hallway that it's not where he - sensitive and controlled amid the pool of 16 prospective jurors. Swift and her mother, Andrea Swift, belongs. Connie believes in his brother - chaos- is easily the best of his career. But watched while they were asked if they were familiar with the cir- too much, you could say. Not moments the Safdies, one suspects, are just getting cumstances of the civil case. after fleeing the doctor, he's ordering started. "Good Time," an A24 release, is They were questioned specifically about their familiarity with Nick to put on a mask - a cheap, rubbery rated R by the Motion Picture Association either Swift or Mueller and whether they considered themselves black face - and leading him into a bank of America for "language throughout, to be fans of their work. Some fans were in the courtroom, but the robbery at a teller window. Not since violence, drug use and sexual content." celebrity trial has so far not drawn big crowds, and many of the 32 "Dog Day Afternoon" has a more unpre- Running time: 99 minutes. Three and a seats reserved for the public were empty. "I'm a huge Taylor Swift pared pair tried their hand at an ill-con- half stars out of four. MPAA definition of fan. This is a huge event and it's exciting to be a part of it," said sidered heist. They emerge with $60,000 R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accom- Jacquelyn Evans, 32, an unemployed food safety specialist. Arthur in cash but soon after their livery cab panying parent or adult guardian. — AP Lewis, also 32 and a real estate agent, said he's "a big supporter of driver picks them up, a dye pack This image released by Lionsgate shows, from left, Sadie Sink, Charlie Shotwell, Ella Taylor Swift and just wanted to check it out." Swift, who appeared explodes and the brothers spill out of the Anderson, foreground center, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts and Eden Grace in court wearing a dark suit over a bluish-green blouse, has said car in a cloud of red smoke. Redfield in "The Glass Castle." — AP she will donate any damages awarded in her suit to charities that fight sexual assault on women.— AFP Bangladesh film star turns Islamic preacher

Bangladeshi film star who became an that boasts millions of adherents in Bangladesh- in 2010, in which he played a secret service Islamic preacher said yesterday he wants after a pilgrimage to Mecca earlier this year. "The agent who takes on an international arms syn- Ato use his fame to draw young people in main reason Allah gave us life... sent us to the dicate. The moderate version of Islam practiced the Muslim-majority nation to the faith. Ananta earth is to worship Him. I learnt it there," he said in Bangladesh for generations has been slowly Jalil is the latest actor to take up the practice by phone yesterday. "If I can preach Islam to the replaced by a more orthodox version of the after 22-year-old Naznin Akter Happy, whose young generation, they'll abide by Allah and the faith in recent years. The burka most associat- decision to become an ultra-conservative Islamic traditions of the prophet and they'll say prayers ed with the rigid Islam of Afghanistan and the preacher was the subject of a best-selling book. five times a day." Unlike Happy, Jalil said he Gulf is becoming more commonplace, new Thousands of fans turned out late last month to would keep making movies although his next mosques and madrassas are flourishing and watch 39-year-old Jalil preach in the capital one would be used to "propagate Islam". hardliners have won symbolic victories in their Dhaka. Photos of him wearing an Islamic turban Jalil made his fortune as a textiles entrepre- push to overhaul Bangladesh's secular consti- and long robe went viral on social media. neur and used the money to bankroll films in tution. — AFP He told AFP he had joined the Tablighi which he played a starring role. He has made Jamaat-a Sunni Muslim evangelical movement six movies, starting with "Khoj" ("The Search") Ananta Jalil THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 lifestyle

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Jason Ashcroft, left, Wendell Ashcroft, and Danielle Garrick share a family hug after land- Wendell Ashcroft and his tandem instructor Scotty ing safely from their first skydiving experience at Skydive Ogden. — AP photos Freeland prepare to land at Skydive Ogden. 'Of course I'm not nervous': Scotty Freeland, left, offers advice to Wendell Ashcroft about watching his head when he 87-year-old skydives for the first time climbs into the plane.

endell Ashcroft floated gracefully to the man of few words, his family sees him for his actions within two months of giving birth. The change in ground after falling from 12,000 feet. As and his willingness to do anything with his children policy allowed Ashcroft to stay in the United States WAshcroft completed his first jump, the and grandchildren. Even when he is not seeking as his wife gave birth to their second child, Richard. casual observer might have thought the 87-year- thrills, he leads an active life and can often be seen A year later Ashcroft found out that three of the ser- old man had been skydiving his whole life. He was mowing his lawn, as well as his neighbor's lawn. vicemen he was supposed to go to Korea with had filled with excitement and did not once hesitate at His son, Dale, said that upon telling Aschroft that been killed in a plane accident upon their return the idea of jumping out a perfectly good airplane. he is doing too much, Ashcroft said, "What do you home. While Ashcroft jumped with two of his grand- want me to do, sit in my chair and die?" When "I got out of going because of (Richard). Instead daughters, a grandson, a daughter-in-law and a Ashcroft, who was born and raised in Cache he saved my life," Ashcroft said. "I would have been niece, many of his other family members gathered County's Hyde Park, was a young man, he worked on that plane, just as sure as anybody." After getting to snap photos and cheer from the ground as he as a carpenter until he received his draft notice on out of the Air Force in 1956, Ashcroft said he didn't sailed in under a fluttering red, white and blue para- Thanksgiving 1951. As the United States was fight- know where to go. He didn't want to return to a job chute. ing in the Korean War, Ashcroft enlisted in the Air in carpentry, which he said he didn't like. Instead he The decision to go skydiving started when Force and began teaching jet mechanics. sought the opportunity to attend college and even- Ashcroft decided to go on a zip line trip. His grand- "The Air Force was the best thing that ever hap- tually found a passion for teaching while working in son, Jason Ashcroft, said that when he saw his pened to me," Ashcroft said. "I was a little dumb kid, the Logan School District from 1961 to 1992. grandfather arrive at the bottom of the zip line, he and I didn't know that I could do anything until I "I think he is an amazing human being altogeth- had the idea to ask if Ashcroft would be interested got into the Air Force." Ashcroft said he gained a er," Jason Ashcroft said. "I was asking him if he's in skydiving. "I was just making a joke out of it," sense of confidence from working with other air- nervous, and he's just like, 'No I've been through Jason Ashcroft said, but his grandfather liked the men from across the United States. "You learn a lot everything, of course I'm not nervous.'" Garrick said idea and a plan quickly formed to go skydiving. about them and you learn a lot about yourself," that in her time spent with her grandfather, he has Ashcroft's granddaughter, Danielle Garrick, said Ashcroft said. taught her that people are never too old to pursue she wasn't sure if Wendell Ashcroft was actually their dreams. Upon landing, Ashcroft said he had expecting to go skydiving, but she liked the idea Job in carpentry enjoyed the jump and would be excited to go and began searching for a time and a place to take Though Ashcroft was supposed to be sent to again. — www.deseretnews.com the idea forward and was surprised by how ready Korea, a last-minute change in policy allowed Air he was to skydive Though Wendell Ashcroft is a Force servicemen to stay home if their wives were Skydive Ogden Owner Suzanne Wallace helps fit Wendell Ashcroft in a cap. Ex-Miss Universe urges HIV testing in Philippines

he Philippines' former Miss Universe age is now 18. The health department had conducted a public HIV test in Manila said most reported HIV cases were among Tyesterday a week after the United men having sex with men. This group on Nations said her country had the fastest- average started having sex at 16 before they growing number of infections in Asia. Pia had begun using condoms or taken tests, Wurtzbach, UNAIDS goodwill ambassador for increasing the risk of infection. "We hope to Asia and the Pacific, took the test in front of see an increase in the rates of regular HIV reporters as part of her efforts to raise aware- testing among Filipinos to normalize the pro- ness of HIV and remove the stigma surround- cedure as a regular medical exam," Wurtzbach ing the virus in the conservative nation. The said. — AFP United Nations and the government said last week the Philippines saw a 140 percent increase in new cases from 2010 to 2016, bucking a regional trend that saw infections decline by 13 percent over the same period. "It is very tricky in the Philippines because we're a predominantly Catholic country and we are conservative. That's why it can be quite a challenge to spread awareness on this issue," Wurtzbach said. "This is a problem that's really happening right now and if we don't do anything about it, we're gonna be number one in the world." The nation of 100 million people, of whom 80 percent are Catholic, is heavily influenced by the church which frowns on contraceptive use. Testing for HIV is also considered taboo. Wurtzbach has been campaigning for HIV awareness Sarajevo announced as the latest eastern European since winning the 2015 beauty pageant. She secured the crown following a major blunder in which host Steve Harvey initially gave it to destination on Qatar Airways' growing route map Miss Colombia in error. Miss Universe 2015 and also United he historic city of Sarajevo is set to join Qatar Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, Akbar Al- An exciting year for the airline continues with a Yesterday Wurtzbach launched an HIV Nations AIDS (UNAIDS) Goodwill information campaign for young people as Airways' expanding global network as the Baker said: "Launching flights to Sarajevo is a signifi- total of 26 new destination launches set to take Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific Pia award-winning airline announces the famous cant step toward increasing our presence in Eastern place through the rest of 2017 and into 2018, with she expressed support for proposed laws Wurtzbach makes a heart sign after receiv- T Balkan city will now launch in October as part of Europe, and will provide our passengers with a new new flights starting to Canberra, Australia; Chiang which would allow 15-year-olds to get an HIV ing a public HIV test to increase awareness test without parental consent. The minimum Qatar Airways' expedited expansion plans. and exciting route to and from this remarkable city. Mai, Thailand; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; San Francisco, yesterday. — AP The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina is now It is also tangible proof of our ongoing commitment US; and Santiago, Chile, to name a few. becoming the latest must-see destination for leisure to expand our global network. Adding Sarajevo to Qatar Airways, the national carrier of the State of travellers, combining its rich history with a modern our global network will allow passengers in Bosnia- Qatar, is one of the fastest growing airlines operat- Oprah-branded mashed potatoes, atmosphere to offer a unique cultural mix. Visitors Herzegovina to connect to more than 150 destina- ing one of the youngest fleets in the world. Now in can experience stunning views of the city and sur- tions worldwide through our five-star hub, Hamad its 20th year of operations, Qatar Airways has a mod- rounding mountains from one of Sarajevo's many International Airport." ern fleet of 200 aircraft flying to business and leisure viewing platforms, and visit Bascarsija, an Ottoman The service between Doha and Sarajevo will be destinations across six continents. soups to hit supermarkets bazaar in the heart of the city boasting many operated four times a week by an Airbus A320, fea- remarkable historical and cultural sights. turing 12 seats in Business Class and 132 seats in Doha - Sarajevo flight schedule: prah Winfrey is headed to the super- Yesterday's announcement of the new four Economy Class. As well as enjoying the award-win- Four times a week market aisle with her own line of times-weekly service, set to begin on 31 October, is ning in-flight service on board the Skytrax Airline of Doha (DOH) to Sarajevo (SJJ) QR293 departs refrigerated soups and side dishes. part of the airline's expedited expansion into Eastern the Year 2017, passengers flying on board will also 06:40 arrives 10:40 O Europe, with the recent launch of four times-weekly have access to Oryx One, Qatar Airways' in-flight Sarajevo (SJJ) to Doha (DOH) QR294 departs The media mogul teamed up with food giant Kraft Heinz to launch the line, after creating a service to Skopje as well as daily flights to Prague, entertainment system offering the latest block- 11:40 arrives 18:55 joint venture earlier this year. The new brand, Czech Republic and Kyiv, Ukraine set to begin later buster movies, TV box sets, music, games and much called O, That's Good!, will offer comfort foods this month. more. with added vegetables, such as mashed pota- toes with cauliflower mixed in. Kraft Heinz Co said yesterday the new brand has no connection to Winfrey's deal with Weight Watchers and won't mention the weight loss program on its packaging. Winfrey bought a 10 percent stake in Weight Watchers two years ago and appears in its ads. The Oprah-branded soups and side dish- es will come to some supermarkets this week and be available nationwide by October.-AP

This image released by HBO shows Oprah Winfrey in a scene from HBO film "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." — AP lifestyle THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

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In these file photos, visitors pose for photos with a 3D image at an art exhibition by Japanese artist Masashi Hattori in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. — AP photos Beautiful Bruges: Old-world Europe in the present

alking through central Bruges is like a romantic jour- ney into the past. With centuries-old gabled build- Wings lining a web of canals and cobblestone streets, the vibe is quintessential old-world Europe. Bruges also is one of the most beautiful cities in Western Europe, a place that has been called the Venice of the North. Located about an hour northwest of Brussels not far from the North Sea, Bruges is the capital of West Flanders in the Flemish region of Belgium. The city was spared major damage during the two world wars, so much of its medieval architecture is intact, earning the historic center of town a UNESCO World Heritage Site des- ignation in 2000. Just walking the streets and along the canals is worth the trip, but there are a few must-see sites around the city, including an early work by Michelangelo. Here are some:

The Markt The large square at the city center is one of the most pic- turesque and bustling places in Bruges. A marketplace start- ing in 958, The Markt (Market Square) is often filled with Photo shows a row of gilded houses in Bruges, Belgium. — AP photos pedestrians and bicycles crisscrossing past statues of medieval freedom fighters Jan Breydel and Pieter de Coninck. The square is framed by the majestic Belfry Tower and Provincial Palace, seat of the West Flanders Provincial Court. Old, gilded houses with cafes on the ground floor line the rest Beguines, a group of women who lived pious lives without Photo shows the historic of the square. Wednesday is market day, where traditional being part of a convent or monastery. Now a home for sisters city center of Bruges, Belgian fare can be found. of the St Benedict Order, it features an expansive lawn planted Belgium. with poplars, homes, an active church and a small museum Church of Our Lady that recreates the living quarters of a Beguine. The spire of Our Lady towers above the city at 381 feet (116 meters) and claims to be one of the world's tallest brick struc- Saint John's House Mill tures. Inside it's like an art museum, filled with exquisite paint- The Netherlands is famous for its multitude of windmills, ings, detailed woodcarving and elaborately-painted tombs. but Bruges has four of its own. The Saint John's House Mill, The real treat is Michelangelo's marble "Madonna and Child," built in 1770, is the only one open to visitors. Located on the believed to be created around 1505 and the only one of his northeast side of town, the Saint John's House Mill also is the statues to leave Italy during his lifetime. Tickets for the muse- only mill still in its original spot and still grinding grain. Closed um are 6 euros for adults, 5 euros for seniors and kids 11 and on Mondays. Adults, 3 euros; seniors, 2 euros, kids 11 and under free. Note: The church is currently undergoing a major under free. renovation that won't be completed until next year. North Sea Groeninge Museum Belgium has a small coastline along the North Sea, but Built on the site of the medieval Eekhout Abbey, the it's worth seeing (in the summer, at least) and only about 30 Groeninge Museum has a wide range of Belgian art, including minutes from Bruges. Oostende is the largest town and the paintings from the 18th and 19th century neoclassical and main transportation and fishing hub. Beach towns dot the realist periods, Flemish expressionism and postwar modern coast, from Knokke near the Netherlands to De Panne near art. The main focus of the collection is the works of the France. The beaches and dunes are perfect for a wide range Flemish Primitives, including Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling and of outdoor activities, from swimming and wind surfing to Hugo van der Goes. Adults, 8 euros, seniors, 6 euros, kids 11 land yachting (think sailboat on wheels). The North Sea is and under free. very shallow, so low tide could mean a long walk to reach the water. — AP Begijnhof This site is a quiet escape from the hustle and bustle in the rest of the city center. Founded in 1245, it was the home of

Photo shows one of the many canals that wind through Bruges in northern Belgium. Photo shows the beach along the North Sea near Knokke-Heist, Belgium. lifestyle THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

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Donte, a musician who only gave his first name, straight- Superhero impersonator Matthias Balke poses with ens out dollar bills on his first day in a brand new tourists on Hollywood Boulevard near the Dolby Theatre Chewbacca costume purchased from eBay for $441, in the in Los Angeles. Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Wearing a Superman costume, Toly Shtapenko, of Ukraine, takes a long stride along the Hollywood Walk of Fame to Covered in sweat, impersonator Belnarr Golden enters a Belnarr Golden, wearing a SpongeBob SquarePants cos- impress tourists, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. — AP photos public restroom with his SpongeBob SquarePants cos- tume, dodges a tourist trying to pull the nose of his cos- tume folded in half after working on Hollywood tume on Hollywood Boulevard, in Los Angeles. Boulevard in Los Angeles. Struggling actors moonlight as superheroes in LA

'It's a place of diversity, drama, illusion and broken dreams'

aptain America has a thick British accent, and his day job is cin- ematographer. Iron Man lives in an apartment behind CHollywood's Dolby Theatre, and at least one of Batman's wings are made with a pair of shower curtains from Target. Superman comes from Ukraine, not the planet Krypton, and don't be surprised Superhero impersonator Omar Budhoo stands in front of Thomas Suriya's to see several Spider-Men and Catwomen of various races and nation- mural depicting iconic Hollywood celebrities while waiting for a green alities. Welcome to the superhero world of Hollywood Boulevard, light to cross the street in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. where just about every caped crusader you've seen in comic books or on film is busy posing for photos with tourists. While the Hollywood we see in movies is a place of glamour and beautiful celebrities, the cast of superheroes filling Hollywood Boulevard is frequently anything but. Many are people struggling to make a buck as they pursue their dream of stardom. "It's a place of diversity, it's a place of drama, it's a place of illusion, a place of broken dreams," says Dan Inigo, a 25-year-old actor who prowls the boule- vard dressed as Spider-Man. Although he barely scrapes by, Inigo says it's still a great gig for a struggling actor who needs to keep an open schedule for auditions. "You can just suit up and come down here whenever you need," he said. "It really is a perfect job if you are an artist." If you want to make any real money on Hollywood Boulevard, you have to really look the part, says Matthias Balke, who put $3,000 into Rashad Rouse, 27, whose dream is getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, hangs upside his elaborate Batman ensemble. He doesn't grab tourists or crack a down from a traffic signal pole in a Spider-Man costume to get attention from tourists on Hollywood joke to get their attention. Instead, he waits for them to come to him. Boulevard, in Los Angeles. "My way of soliciting is the quality of my costume," he said. "People see it, they come to me to ask me for a picture. I'd never walk up to acters. What's worse, some look grungy, while others turn off tourists anybody." with aggressive demands for money. "This should be done by people The screenwriter-producer-actor says tips can range from a few with performance backgrounds," Balke said. "It should be like coins to as much as $100. He accepts them all, noting the change Disneyland." — AP occasionally comes in handy: "Even Batman has to do laundry." Superhero impersonator Justin Harrison, left, rides a Metro train wearing Longtime street performers say the business used to be more lucra- a Superman costume on his way to Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. tive, until the boulevard became overpopulated with costumed char-

Captain America impersonator Henry Hodge, a cinematographer from England Batman impersonator Matthias Balke is silhouetted while standing on A young tourist tips Justin Harrison, wearing a homemade Captain America who lives a stone's throw away from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, opens his Hollywood Boulevard near the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. costume, and Harrison's roommate, Reginald Jackson in a Black Panther cos- apartment door in Los Angeles. tume after taking pictures with them on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Superhero impersonator and actor Dan Inigo, left, uses a tourist's smart- Two Spider-Man impersonators, Rashad Rouse, front, and Juan Carlos phone to take a selfie on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Banegas, an immigrant from Honduras, change in the alley next to the TCL Chinese Theatre after working on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Superman impersonator Justin Harrison, center, high-fives a commuter wearing a sweatshirt with a Superman symbol printed on it sa he and his room- Ramiro Rodriguez in a Bumblebee costume, a character from the Transformers movie mate, Reginald Jackson, in a Red Power Ranger costume, head back home after working on Hollywood Boulevard. series, shakes hands with young tourists on Hollywood Boulevard, in Los Angeles. Struggling actors moonlight as superheroes in LA

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A woman takes selfie with an audio-visual art installation titled ‘cornerstone’ displayed at The Future of Today Exhibition at odayT Art Museum in Beijing, yesterday. The Future of Today Exhibition themed by ‘.zip’ presents artistic works by different artists and shows various expression formats of art inspire people to reflect on existence and future at different dimensions of time and space. — AP Guitar-slinging Singapore granny shreds stereotypes

n 81-year-old guitar-slinging Singaporean granny has shredded stereotypes to pursue her love of rock Amusic, becoming a sought-after performer and unlikely internet sensation. Mary Ho’s late-flourishing Big names flock to Cuba’s first career will reach its zenith Wednesday when she performs in front of a huge crowd at Singapore’s National Day Parade, marking 52 years of the city-state’s independence. Grandmother of seven Ho only started playing the guitar at contemporary art space 60, fulfilling a lifelong dream to learn the instrument. She initially taught herself from a book with an acoustic or decades, Cubans have been used Non-profit art and was content strumming along and singing. But when to the revolutionary slogan “La lucha Fiaschi says he had the idea of a friend introduced her to rock star Carlos Santana’s classic Fcontinua,” or “the struggle goes on.” installing an art exhibit space in Cuba track “Samba Pa Ti” about a decade ago, she decided to Now the first ever international contem- during a visit in 2014, when he stumbled seek some professional tutoring to shift things up a few porary art space on the Communist-ruled upon the ruined shell of a 1950s cinema gears. “It was too difficult (to learn on my own) so I found a island has been dubbed “Arte Continua,” or in the old Chinese quarter of Havana. teacher,” she told AFP. “But the teacher looked at me and “art goes on,” reflecting the changes shap- Working with the Cuban authorities, he said ‘Oh I’ve never taught anyone your age before’.” ing Havana. The concept, originally from transformed the space and baptized it Italy, brings leading contemporary artists “Arte continua” to signify that unlike its to an island that has been under one-par- predecessors, this was not an actual ty rule for more than half a century. It is an gallery but more in line with Cuba’s cul- offshoot of a project called “Galleria tural centers. As well as sculptures, the Continua” which started when Italians space will feature musical events, dance, Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi and theatre and photographic and architec- Maurizio Rigillo had the idea of setting up tural exhibits. contemporary art spaces in the most “We are the first non-Cuban exhibition unlikely places, starting in 1990 in the space in Cuba,” said Luisa Ausenda, one of medieval Italian village of San Gimignano. the organizers of “Arte Continua,” boasting They scored a notable coup when they of the project’s pioneering, non-profit role. installed a gallery in China in 2005. The Under a deal with the Communist authori- Havana space includes work from big ties, the pieces on display will not be for names including Michelangelo Pistoletto, late Greek-Italian artist Jannis Kounellis. smashed mirrors with a giant hammer in sale. Nevertheless, the concept has suc- Daniel Buren of France, British-Indian artist Pistoletto has already put on his own per- front of a stunned audience in the old city’s ceeded in luring some of the biggest Anish Kapoor, India’s Shilpa Gupta and the formance art show in Havana, when he 18th century San Francisco de Paula church. names in the contemporary art world to Cuba, thanks in part to private sponsor- ship and the collaboration of diplomatic missions in Havana.

Import and export of artists “We have a dual mission,” said Ausenda. This picture shows Mary Ho, also known as Grandma “On the one hand, we want to bring Mary, posing with her electric guitar during a rehearsal renowned international artists here, while in Singapore. — AFP on the other hand, we want to help the development of Cuban artists, both here Despite not knowing how to read music, Ho was deter- on the island and abroad.” mined to learn her favorite song and practiced up to three With support from “Arte continua,” local hours a day to get the hang of it. Since then, she’s amassed artists Reynier Leyva Novo and Jose a collection of more than 20 guitars, recorded her own Eduardo Yaque were able to take their album of Latin music and is often in demand for charity work to the Venice biennale and other gigs. A video of Ho playing rock classic “Need Your Love So “Galleria continua” spaces. Bad” has more than 1.1 million views on YouTube. In fast- The Havana space also organizes a reg- ageing Singapore, Ho is a poster child for how to remain ular cinema club, guided tours and com- active when elderly, and has featured in various campaigns munity workshops that cater to local encouraging senior citizens to stay active. schoolchildren. She admitted to feeling a little anxious ahead of “It’s a positive project,” said Jorge Wednesday’s performance before a crowd of 27,000 at the Fernandez, director of Cuba’s Museum of parade, which features a military tattoo before a festive Fine Arts and the Havana biennale. “They show featuring local stars. Arte Continua’ is the first private bring in artists but above all, they work “Being my first time for such a large performance, I nat- gallery of contemporary art with the local community, with children. urally feel very nervous,” she said. Asked if she was based in Cuba. —AFP photos They are not here to sell pictures, and that exhausted from all her activities, Ho simply laughed. is what we must promote.” — AFP “Maybe it’s just my nature, it’s the love of doing things, learning things... I don’t ever get tired,” she said. — AFP